PowerPoint Simple Project Plan Template
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When to Use This Template: Project managers can use this simple, single-slide template to track deliverables, tasks, and timelines over a one-year period.
Notable Template Features: This template features a straightforward table layout with a horizontal bar chart that illustrates the duration of each task. Use the Today marker to see the status of each task (examples: finished, ongoing, or pending). The template comes with sample data that you can customize to align with your project, or you can choose the blank option and start from scratch.
PowerPoint Agile Project Plan Template
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When to Use This Template: Use this two-slide template to share the details of an Agile project plan with your team and stakeholders. It provides a clear picture of the project’s journey over a specific timeline and is available blank or with sample data, so you can customize it to fit your needs.
Notable Template Features: On the first slide, enter the project deliverables and scope. The template also provides space to list the project tasks, owners, start and end dates, and task status. Use the Risk column to indicate whether a task runs the chance of being overdue, and visualize your sprints with the customizable, color-coded bar chart on the second slide.
PowerPoint High-Level Project Plan Template
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When to Use This Template: This high-level, single-slide project plan template is ideal for tracking and communicating project timelines and milestones in each project phase. Use this template to inform stakeholders about the project’s progress.
Notable Template Features: This template, available with sample data and as a blank option, provides a six-month timeline that differentiates the project phases with colors, and it uses icons to highlight project milestones. You can also designate priority level with icons (high, medium, low), and customize the display of the phases, task timelines, colors, and milestone icons.
PowerPoint Project Plan Template by Project Phase
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When to Use This Template: Use this single-slide template to visualize your project in the five official project management phases (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, closure), as well as the tasks associated with each one.
Notable Template Features: This template visually separates the five phases of project management with distinct colors, and it illustrates the sequential steps from project initiation to closure. Customize the sample data to fit your project and show the deliverables of each phase, or download the blank version and enter your project details.
PowerPoint Three-Year High-Level Project Plan Template
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When to Use This Template: Project managers can use this multiple-slide template to communicate the basics of a three-year project plan to stakeholders, including timeline, budget, and resources.
Notable Template Features: This template provides a slide for you to enter the deliverables for a consecutive three-year project plan. It also includes a slide for budget details and another for resource information, and it comes in both blank and sample data versions that you can customize.
PowerPoint Team Project Plan Template
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When to Use This Template: Use this single-slide template to present how each team is progressing through their assigned tasks, as compared to the planned durations.
Notable Template Features: This template displays task progress with two duration bars: one shows the planned duration, and the other shows the actual duration. This comparison enables you to adjust deadlines as needed and forecast the timeline of future project tasks. The template also includes milestone markers so that you can assess your progress.
PowerPoint Project Work Plan Template
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When to Use This Template: Use this single-slide template to present the objectives, budget, team members, and schedule of your work plan.
Notable Template Features: This template includes space to note the key elements of a project plan, such as timelines, objectives, budget, and team. The numbered columns show tasks moving from left to right, making it easy for team members to understand the project’s scope and to grasp each section’s information.
Project Plan Related Templates
Check out these customizable project plan templates to support all aspects of your project planning process.
Gantt Chart Template
Use a Gantt chart template to show the durations of each successive task and progress toward deliverables.
Work Breakdown Structure Template
Use a work breakdown structure (WBS) template to list and organize the tasks associated with each deliverable.
Project Timeline Template
Use a project timeline template to track and monitor the project’s timeline. You can also use this as a visual tool to communicate progress with stakeholders.
Communication Plan Template
Use a communication plan template to detail the project stakeholders and the agreed-upon plan for communicating with each other, including platform, frequency, and point person(s).
Resource Plan Template
Choose from this variety of resource plan templates to list and manage your project resources, including personnel, budget, key pieces of equipment, and more.
Risk Management Template
Use a risk management plan template to identify and manage your project’s risks and decide which are worth the potential opportunity.
Project Plan Budget Template
Project Summary Template
Use a project summary template to write a high-level overview of your project to share with stakeholders or higher-ups who need a bird’s-eye view of your work.
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