Simple project plan

Creating a comprehensive and user-friendly project plan is essential for the success of any project. The free simple project plan spreadsheet template from Retable is designed to streamline your project planning process, making it easier and more efficient. This template offers a straightforward and customizable framework, allowing project managers and team members to clearly outline project goals, tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities. Ideal for small to medium-sized projects, this template ensures that all aspects of your project are organized and accessible, promoting better communication and collaboration among team members. With its intuitive design, this template is perfect for professionals across various industries looking to manage their projects effectively without the complexity of advanced project management tools. Get started on your next project with confidence using the free simple project plan spreadsheet template from Retable.

Simple project plan spreadsheet template

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Columns of the simple project plan spreadsheet template

• Status: It's a select column type. Indicates the current stage of each task of the project, such as 'Done', 'In Progress', 'Planned', etc. You can add more status option.
• Project name: It's a text column type. Here, you can find the name of each project, which provide a quick idea for each projects.
• Priority: It's a select column type. Indicates the priority each project, such as 'High', 'Medium', 'Low', etc. You can add more priority option.
• Project manager: It's a select column type. The name listed here represents who is the manager of each project. You can change this column type to "Collaborator" to easily assign tasks to your teammates.
• Start date: It's a calendar column type. Here you can find the start date of the projects. You can change the date format by customizing this column.
• End date: It's a calendar column type. Here you can find the deadline for the project completion. You can change the date format by customizing this column.
• Assigned to: It's a select column type. The name listed here represents who is responsible for each task. You can change this column type to "Collaborator" to easily assign tasks to your teammates.
• Description: It's a text column type. Here, you can find the description of each project, which provide a detailed explanation for each of them.
• Deliverables: It's a text column type. Here, you can find the deliverable(s) of each project, which provides a quick idea of the deliverables of each project.
• Dependencies: It's a text column type and you can find information about the states your project depends on in this column.
• Estimated hours: It's a number column type and you can find the estimated hours for your project to be completed.
• Actual hours: It's a number column type and you can add the information in how many hours your project actually took to be completed in this column.
• Comments/notes: It's a rich tect column type and you can your notes and comments about each project to this column.

Retable's simple project plan spreadsheet template is designed to streamline your simple project management processes, making it easier to manage and track from project status to priorities.

Views of the simple project plan spreadsheet template

The view types of your simple project plan template are designed to offer different perspectives and ways to interact with your projects. Here's a brief explanation of each view:

Grid view (default):

This view presents the projects in a traditional, Excel like, spreadsheet format, where each row represents a different project and the columns represent the various attributes of each project, such as status, priority, start date, etc. It's the most detailed and comprehensive view, suitable for editing and entering data collaboratively.

Kanban view:

There are 3 kanban views in this simple project plan spreadsheet template.

• Status Kanban
• Priority Kanban
• Assigned to Kanban

In Kanban views, projects are displayed as dynamic cards on a Kanban board, allowing you to visualize and manage your project workflow. Each Kanban card represents a project and can be moved across columns representing different stages of the project task management process (e.g., Completed, In Progress, Planned etc.). This view helps track progress and manage projects easily.

Status Kanban

Priority Kanban

Assigned to Kanban

Calendar view:

Calendar view helps you automatically display the dates in your table on a calendar. If your table has multiple date columns (ex; start date & end date) you can automatically create date ranges in your calendar view.

Chart view

Chart view is one of the Retable views that project managers need most and helps you quickly visualize your data and get meaningful reports from your data. Retable offers four different chart types: line, area, bar and pie. So you can easily visualize your data in real-time.

Each Retable data view serves a unique use case and can be used depending on the particular project management needs, whether that's detailed data entry, visual data management, or quick status checks.

Retable's simple project plan spreadsheet template is a ready-to-use spreadsheet template for efficiently managing your projects, enabling you to organize and progress each project from start to end with ease. With options like Grid, Kanban, Calendar and Chart views, you can customize your workflow to suit your team's unique needs.

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