Project Plan & Milestone Tracker (Excel)
A project plan with a Gantt that draws itself from the task dates, plus a separate milestone view for the dates anybody outside the team actually cares about.
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An Excel project plan with a Gantt that draws itself from the task dates, plus a separate milestone view for the dates anybody outside the team actually cares about. Tasks carry owners, dates and dependencies, and moving a date redraws the chart. Editable, so the breakdown structure matches your project.
A plan and a milestone list are different artefacts serving different audiences. The plan has two hundred rows and belongs to the team; the milestone list has twelve and belongs to the sponsor.
Keeping them in one workbook, with the milestones flagged in the plan, stops the familiar failure where the reported milestone dates and the underlying plan quietly diverge.
Who it is for
IT project managers who need a working plan without introducing a scheduling tool.
What is included
- Start Here — how to set up phases and dates
- Project Plan — tasks, phases, owners, start and end dates, status
- Milestones — the dates reported externally, flagged from the plan
- Gantt — timeline drawn from the plan dates
- Summary — progress by phase and milestone status
When to use it
- A project needs a plan this week and MS Project is not available
- Your sponsor wants milestones, your team wants tasks, and you are maintaining both by hand
- The current plan is a slide that has stopped matching reality
Format and compatibility
- File format
- Microsoft Excel workbook (.xlsx)
- Editable
- Yes — nothing locked, protected or watermarked
- Delivery
- Instant download after purchase on Etsy
- Licence
- Single-user commercial use on your own projects. See licence and downloads.
- Price
- €16,95 excluding VAT · €20,51 including 21% Dutch VAT, which is what Etsy shows an EU buyer at checkout
Delivered as a standard .xlsx workbook. No macros — the .xlsx format cannot contain them, so it opens without security warnings and passes corporate download policies. Every cell is editable; nothing is locked or password protected.
Questions
Does it calculate the critical path?
No. It is a working plan and a timeline, not a scheduling engine. For critical path analysis you need a scheduling tool.
How many tasks can it take?
It is comfortable in the low hundreds — beyond that, a plan in a spreadsheet becomes hard to govern for reasons that have nothing to do with the file.
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