How to Build a PMO Dashboard: Gantt + Progress Charts

PMOs need both timeline confidence and portfolio-level progress insight. A single dashboard is the most practical way to deliver that.

The scenario

  • Schedules and KPIs are split across separate pages.
  • Reporting is slow and manually assembled.
  • Stakeholders lack a shared operational view.

What Modern Gantt solves

Modern Gantt gives schedule visibility, while chart components can summarize progress metrics from the same project data ecosystem.

Suggested dashboard structure

  1. Place Gantt as the center panel for timeline risk.
  2. Add progress and status charts for summary context.
  3. Use consistent filters across sections where possible.
  4. Publish to a PMO audience in SharePoint and Teams.

Business outcome

The PMO gets a single review surface for project health, reducing reporting overhead and improving actionability.

This is ideal for recurring governance cadences.

A good PMO dashboard should support both exception handling and trend analysis. That means combining detailed timeline evidence with clear summary metrics.

Effective design choices include:

  • Keep one primary timeline panel for schedule truth.
  • Add a compact KPI band (on-track, at-risk, overdue milestones).
  • Separate project-level drill-down from portfolio-level rollups.
  • Use consistent date windows to avoid conflicting narratives.

When configured this way, PMO reviews become action-focused rather than slide-driven.

How this compares with other Gantt options

Enterprise tools such as Smartsheet, Wrike, and Microsoft Project for the web can provide rich portfolio dashboards, sometimes with deeper native portfolio management modules. Modern Gantt paired with SharePoint charting is often the best fit for PMOs that want robust dashboarding while retaining a SharePoint-first data model and governance approach.

Learn more

For more details on features, setup options, and pricing, visit our Gantt page.