A bar and star chart is a simple form of Gantt chart.

Once you have identified your tasks and milestones, anyone can draw up a bar and star chart with either ruler and pencil, or a program like PowerPoint or Excel.

It uses only three elements: bars for tasks, stars for milestones, and elbow connectors in between. Use the ‘connectors’ to link together bars and stars.

An example of a star and bar chart:

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The important thing is to keep your star and bar chart simple, so that it can fit easily on a single page. If you have too many tasks and milestones, combine some of them for clarity