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Does anyone has a template to create a project plan?

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Mario Posadas Project Manager| Sanofi Naucalpan, Estado De Mexico, Mexico
the project plan that im looking for is one that calculates progress and update date, preferably in excel
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MANDA SATSHISHINGA Manager| Ordem Dos Engenheiros de Angola Luanda, Angola
Dear Mario,

As there is sometime a miss understanding between Project Mangement Plan (A Formal Document containing the overall management plans (13) + Baselines (Scope, Cost, Schedule) and a Project Schedule (Bar Chart, Gantt chart with predecessors, successors, milestone...) most of the time produced in Project Management Software such Microsoft Project or Oracle Primavera.

Which one are you looking for ?

Best Regards.

MS
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Mario Posadas Project Manager| Sanofi Naucalpan, Estado De Mexico, Mexico
thanks Manda for your support..
due to the cost of MS Project i want to develop another tool to follow up the pending actions.. i saw in other web page a file in excel, but again this has a cost...

do you know if there is a file in excel to follow up the pending actions??
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1 reply by MANDA SATSHISHINGA
Feb 26, 2018 5:41 PM
MANDA SATSHISHINGA
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I understand the concern, the benefit for using the project management software is the automation of data processing.
Now using MS Excel still possible but depend of your skill of using it, and depend of how many activities will contain your schedule.
Personally I will prefer doing it manually than in Excel, and focus just on the critical path.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
MS Project does.
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MANDA SATSHISHINGA Manager| Ordem Dos Engenheiros de Angola Luanda, Angola
Feb 26, 2018 3:29 PM
Replying to Mario Posadas
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thanks Manda for your support..
due to the cost of MS Project i want to develop another tool to follow up the pending actions.. i saw in other web page a file in excel, but again this has a cost...

do you know if there is a file in excel to follow up the pending actions??
I understand the concern, the benefit for using the project management software is the automation of data processing.
Now using MS Excel still possible but depend of your skill of using it, and depend of how many activities will contain your schedule.
Personally I will prefer doing it manually than in Excel, and focus just on the critical path.
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Ken Bradshaw Project Manager| CRA Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Hi Mario,
There is a large selection of templates available under Templates at the top of this page. Plus, keep an eye out for ProjectManagement.com's monthly offering of featured templates; there are always many good documents included.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
If you're looking for a schedule template for excel, Google will provide a few options. Definitely can look within this community in the template section. In addition to that, you can also check:
https://www.smartsheet.com/blog/how-make-excel-timeline-template
https://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/project-timeline.html
https://www.officetimeline.com/project-management/excel

Also, have a look at Open Source options that mimic MS Project. Check out
https://www.projectlibre.com/

Good luck.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Mario,

You could have a look at Project Libre and other free software.

You may want to look at https://www.projectmanagement.com/project-plans/ for project plan
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MANDA SATSHISHINGA Manager| Ordem Dos Engenheiros de Angola Luanda, Angola
Dear Mario,
Did you found any template?
I suggest you to use rolling wave technique in case you use an Excel worksheet as schedule to make easy.
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Eduard Hernandez
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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Most likely you are not looking into a Project Plan, which is typically a Word document. I would recommend to browse www.projectmanagementdocs.com as a starting point.

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