Project plans are difficult to conceptualize. Let's not make them difficult to put together. Pick one of these professional project plan templates and have your project plan write itself.
John McTale
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A very straightforward Excel template for planning and tracking your projects in a spreadsheet. It allows you to conveniently break up a project into tasks, manage stakeholders, and monitor deadlines.
This process-oriented project plan template from Venngage emphasizes milestones needed for a successful project rollout. Based on a timeline, it easily lets you see if the project is progressing as it has been designed.
“Agile” is a more advanced template for a project plan, created with Dev teams in mind. A very good pick if you’re working in a Scrum environment, letting you easily integrate your team’s sprints with the overall project goal.
Available on Adobe Stock, this Illustrator project plan template will help you place tasks within a visually presented timeline. Clear, legible, and very easy to edit.
If you need an elegant printable project plan template, this one should work great for you. Makes tracking small, daily tasks for you and your team easy and will look great pinned to a corkboard.
Cute, versatile, and very modern, this Google Slides and PowerPoint project planner is focused on following a calendar. Not great for advanced projects with complex dependency chains but a solid pick for a semi-personal project plan.
The only one on our list centered around your personal to-dos, rather than business needs. It’s a simple, printable project plan template that lets you monitor everyday tasks as well as weekly and monthly goals.
Another project plan template designed for analog, rather than digital use, created by Sophie Marie design studio. The cool thing about this one is that it lets you break each task down into smaller, digestible chunks. Oh, and it’s very reasonably priced!
A very neat project plan and tracker template brought to you by Yours Truly Printables. Available in PDF only so it’s not a perfect choice if you need digital access to your project plan. Will work great for printing, though.
This one, designed by Leaflove Space, is a perfect project plan template for when you need to send over the description of your project to external stakeholders. It lets you tell a compelling story around your project, present the most important goals, and a timeline without overwhelming your reader with too much information.
Another project plan template created for printing, this one by the Wise And Wonder design studio comes with placeholders for various elements of your plan: the summary, task list, weekly calendar, and some space for meeting notes.
A fantastic project plan template for Excel created by Someka studio. It’s based on a Gantt chart but much, much easier to use than dedicated Gantt chart software such as Microsoft Project. A great template for managing complex workflows and long-term projects (plus, it has 2,000+ stellar customer reviews behind it).
A simple one-page project plan template making it easy to monitor all that matters: the deadlines, task statuses, budget, backlog… Wrapped in a nice-looking layout with eye-catching colors, elegant fonts, and enough white space in between items to not overwhelm the viewer.
EasyXL created this impressive project planning bundle with some neat features such as automatic deadline calculator, week-to-week calendar, and delays tracking. It might not have the most modern look or feel to it but it’s highly functional and easy to use.
Another one designed by Leaflove Space, “Action plan” is a great MS Word project plan template ideal for the more advanced stages of a project execution. Its main purpose is to allow you to map out and describe specific tasks your team needs to complete to successfully deliver the project.
Last but not least, a PowerPoint template for a project plan presentation. A very good choice for sending over your project plan for acceptance by your higher-ups or external stakeholders. It features 30+ well-designed slides for all typical parts of a project presentation: summary, team introduction, lifecycle, risk tracking, and so on. Plus, a lot of really nice data visualization options.
