I’ve updated it as if all of the tasks had been performed as scheduled by the PM. The image below shows two projects in my Project Online environment. Let’s go to Project and set up some sample data. Why, if my project manager is saying the project status is “green,” is the progress bar in the Gantt chart not aligned with today’s date? I received a question today from a client. Let’s zoom in on one of the main components of many Gantt charts, the progress bar, and its relationship to the project’s overall status. It can be fairly simple and straight-forward and can be more complex, presenting variance from the project’s baseline, task dependencies, critical path, and more. The Gantt chart is a pictorial representation of a project’s lifecycle. The percent (%) complete metric is a great example of this. Information presented in the Project Center in Microsoft Project Online can sometimes be a mystery.