5 Timeline Templates to Enhance Your Project Management

You can’t have a successful project without a detailed and realistic timeline. After all, the project timeline gives you a visual overview of all tasks, milestones, and deadlines — which essentially helps you avoid potential bottlenecks or delays.

But, you don’t actually have to create a new timeline every time you start a project, especially if you often have similar projects.

Introducing project timeline templates — a genius way to save time and ensure you’ve covered all the relevant information in your timeline.?

Below, we’ve included 5 project timeline templates in the form of Google Sheets and Slides. But, you can find many more templates on Plaky’s website.

*This article is the abridged, adapted version of the post originally published on the Plaky Learn Hub. Find more project timeline templates here:?

https://plaky.com/learn/work-tools-and-templates/project-timeline-templates/?

#1 Simple project timeline template

Download: Google Sheets | Google Docs

This simple project timeline template includes a table that focuses on project tasks and milestones with information such as:

• Task/milestone name,?
• Status,?
• Assignee,
• Start and end dates, and
• Duration.?

In the Google Sheets version, a Gantt chart is generated using the information from this table to visually show the duration and progress of your tasks over time.

#2 Advanced project timeline template

Download: Google Sheets

This project timeline template covers a period of a year divided into months and weeks. You can use it to create more advanced project timelines, in which you can group tasks according to the project phase they belong to.?

Tasks belonging to the same phase have the same color for better visualization, and they can be dragged and dropped across the timeline. There is also a vertical line marking today, which helps you easily navigate the timeline.

#3 Multi-project timeline template

Download: Google Sheets

This template is intended for those of you who are constantly juggling multiple projects at the same time.?

Since managing 2, 3, or even 10 projects simultaneously can get confusing, it’s important to have a template where you can see all the projects’ timelines at a glance and make sure you and your team aren’t overburdened.

Our multi-project timeline template shows you your projects across one calendar year, but you can customize it to fit whatever time frame you need.

Plus, you can choose to assign colors to projects according to different criteria, such as:?

• Project type,
• Stage,?
• Priority, or?
• Department or person responsible.

#4 Monthly Gantt chart template

Download: Google Slides

Our Gantt chart template, which should help you track your monthly tasks, consists of:

• Blue arrows representing tasks, and??
• Multi-colored stars representing deadlines and milestones.

The monthly Gantt chart template is in the form of Google Slides, so it’s also perfect if you need to make a presentation for team members or project stakeholders.

#5 Project milestone template?

Download: Google Sheets

This template enables you to visually track project milestones throughout the year. The timeline is divided into quarters, months, and weeks, so you can plan your project as accurately as possible.?

It consists of:

• Vertical lines representing milestones, and
• Horizontal bars representing tasks.

These elements aren’t fixed, so you can move them across the chart to customize the timeline to suit your project.?

Manage your projects with ease in Plaky?

While Google Sheets and Slides have their advantages, they can’t offer the level of customization and scalability that task management software can.?

With a tool like Plaky, you can create elaborate project timelines with an unlimited number of tasks — and group, sort, and filter them to ensure the timeline fits your project perfectly.?

As a user-friendly yet robust PM tool, Plaky enables you to:

• Display your tasks in Gantt view, giving you a bird’s-eye view of your project timeline and enabling you to easily spot any overlapping tasks or bottlenecks,
• Track timelines of individual tasks with the help of the timeline custom field in Plaky’s Table view,?
• Adjust the timeline of each task, even of multiple tasks at the same time,
• Have an overview of all information connected to the task (such as assignees, status, deadline, budget, etc.), and?
• Use comments in the item cards for effortless team communication.

But this is far from everything. So, check out Plaky’s pricing plans to see all that it has to offer.?

Create functional yet elegant project timelines in a few clicks. Try Plaky today!?

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