Free PowerPoint Project Timeline Templates

Download Simple Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint

Use this simple project timeline template to present key timeline information to project sponsors, team members, and other stakeholders. This template includes a visually rich Gantt chart with month-by-month project timeline columns, color-coded task owners, and customizable task durations. Ensure that your project is on track and that you’ve accounted for all items prior to launch with this dynamic, easy-to-use template. 

Read our collection of free project timeline templates to find additional resources and get the most out of your project planning timelines.

Download Multiple Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint

Successful project management requires not only managing the scopes, budgets, and resources of multiple projects, but also planning and executing deliverables. Use this project timeline template with multiple project swimlanes to capture and communicate timelines and milestones for a variety of projects. A Days per Project bar chart slide helps project team members understand project durations, while a color-coded Number of Team Members slide helps communicate resource allocation details. 

For more information about making PowerPoint timelines from scratch, read our guide to making a timeline in PowerPoint.

Download 30-Day Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

Create successful month-by-month project plans with this visually rich 30-day project timeline template. Enter project goals and objectives in the customizable bar chart, and adjust the bars to reflect the duration of each task. You can also add milestone dates for key objectives or deliverables and use the built-in Results row to quickly review project progress.

Download High-Level Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

Clearly communicate your project’s core deliverables and key milestones with this high-level project timeline template. This single-slide template provides visually dynamic, color-coded stages, with text boxes to list the details of each stage. This template is all you need to track your project’s most important goals.

Download IT Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

This IT project timeline template includes a customizable framework for everything you need to plan and present your IT-specific project schedules. The template comes pre-filled with example text for each project stage and allows you to enter individual project tasks or timelines for different stages. A Duration column helps you track various project components, while the bar chart provides a visual representation of how each stage relates to the next.

Download Software Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

Use this dynamic software project timeline template to keep team members and project sponsors apprised of project plans and progress, from kick-off to launch. The template comes pre-filled with Prep, Initiation, Development, Operations, and Launch categories, and includes common software project tasks, such as Technical Requirements, API Development, UI Client, and Hardware Configuration. This template includes a bar chart to easily review project stages and progress.

Download Project Milestones Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

This project milestones presentation template provides a clear picture of your project’s principal events and stages of completion. Break down project goals into individual tasks and milestones, set due dates, and establish task duration. This visually rich template provides project managers and stakeholders with a high-level timeline of key milestones and due dates.

Download Project Timeline Planning Template — PowerPoint  

Present both a high-level overview and stage-by-stage rundowns of your project plan with this project timeline planning template. This template serves as the visual representation of your proposed project plan and enables you to create tasks, edit task status, assign tasks to team members, set start and end dates, and enter additional details. The bar chart slide translates these tasks into a visual timeline and allows you to add a color-coded indicator that signifies the status of each task.

Download Project Roadmap Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

Use this project roadmap template to visualize project goals, scope, deliverables, tasks, and assignments for successful project planning and execution. The template allows you to add milestones and other important dates for your project’s eventual launch. Month-by-month columns and color-coded project phases help you and your team quickly and accurately gauge project progress.

Download Project Timeline Gantt Chart Template — PowerPoint 

This project timeline template uses a Gantt chart to help you and your team plan project stages, milestones, deadlines, and resources. Break down your project timeline into stages with clear, achievable tasks to create a simple but comprehensive project timeline. By doing so, you can provide team members, project sponsors, and other stakeholders with a high-level overview of your project’s aims, dependencies, and individual task durations.

Download Agile Project Timeline Template — PowerPoint  

This Agile-specific project timeline template is the perfect solution for Agile project managers who need to break project-deliverable goals into sprints, or individual time-bound tasks, and assign departments or individuals to each sprint. Customize the color-coded key to indicate priority levels or potential risks for each item on your project timeline. You can also use this template for Agile retrospectives, and Program Increment (PI) Planning. 

Learn more in our comprehensive guide to Agile project management.

Download 3-Year Project Roadmap Template — PowerPoint  

Present your project’s big-picture, long-term goals and current status with this three-year project roadmap template. Use the year-by-year horizontal “streams” to track task or milestone owners, statuses, project stages, priorities, and potential risks for each component of your project timeline. This template is ideal for longer-duration projects that require you to account for multiple targets and deliverables over many months or years.

A PowerPoint project timeline template is a tool project managers use to propose a project timeline or present status updates. Use the template to set task due dates and keep project team members and other stakeholders apprised of project progress. 

As the primary tool for project planning and status update meetings, a PowerPoint project timeline template is essential for ensuring that you have accounted for all project stages and tasks and assigned them to team members. A template provides a high-level, visually rich overview of interrelated tasks and their chronological sequence, due dates, durations, and milestones. A template might also include a brief overview of the project’s scope and goals, so project team members and sponsors understand how to measure project success upon completion. 

While PowerPoint project timeline templates vary, many of them include the following components to include in your proposed project or project status presentations: 

• Project Name: Enter a name for the project. 
• Project Scope: Provide a brief, high-level overview of what the project will entail. 
• Objectives or Goals: Briefly list the project’s main objectives and goals. What does the project hope to achieve? What is its purpose?
• Task ID: For each project task on your timeline, provide a unique task ID. Assigning numbered tasks to team members makes it easier to keep complex projects organized and on schedule.
• Task Name: Enter a name for each task on your timeline that must be completed upon project execution. 
• Stage: Provide the name of the project phase for each stage of the project, such as “Prep,” “Initiation,” “Development,” “Operations,” “Launch,” or “Retrospective.” 
• Assigned To: Assign each project task to a team member, stakeholder, third-party service provider, or client.
• Department: Include the name of the department responsible for each project timeline task or stage. 
• Start Date: Enter a proposed or actual start date for each project task. 
• End Date: Enter an anticipated end date for each project task. 
• Duration: Add the estimated or actual duration of each project task. In PowerPoint project timeline templates, you can extend or retract the start and end dates of the project task bar graphs to quickly update the duration of any task.  
• Milestone: Set project milestones as major indicators of proposed or accomplished achievements in your project’s timeline. 
• Risk: List any potential risks to successful project execution. By doing so, you can proactively address most risks and ensure they don’t disrupt your project schedule. 
• Sprint: For Agile teams, assign tasks to a particular sprint for work to be completed within a certain time-bound period.

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