

At the real projects, the project schedule informs all team members about the overall project status and is available for updating by each team member to reflect always the actual information.

The project schedule visually depicts all work connected with a project's execution on time, indicates the main project stages that need to be done with obligatory indication the start and end dates, milestones in a chronological sequence, activities, deliverables, and resources that must to be utilized to deliver all works on a project. It is a useful tool for representation, monitoring, communication and reporting about the project progress. The project schedule is one of the main definitions in a project planning and project management. An experienced user spent 10 minutes creating this sample. This diagram was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM using the combination of libraries from the Timeline Diagrams Solution.

Depending on your project needs, you can design simple Timeline Diagrams and designate only the main project stages, or highly detailed Timeline Diagrams depicting all project tasks, subtasks, milestones, deadlines, responsible persons and other description information.Įxample 1: Timeline Diagram - Project Schedule
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The Timeline Diagrams solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software with samples, templates and libraries of specially developed smart vector design elements of timeline bars, time intervals, milestones, events, today marker, legend, and many other elements with custom properties for professional drawing clear and intuitive Timeline Diagrams, which are ideal for use in presentations, reports, education materials, and other documentation.

When representing the project timeline in a visual way, you supply each member of project team with perfect opportunity to clearly see all project stages that must to be performed to complete this project, to observe their start and end dates, the project deadlines, durations, milestones and to identify the project progress in a moment. Timeline diagrams help to display all this information in the best way. When working with long and complex project, consisting of several stages and including a lot of tasks, it is especially important to visualize all chronology of work on the project, accurately placing the key points of the project (milestones) on the time axis. However, the basic components of any project remain unaltered, these are the time limits, timeline and Gantt chart. Annually the project managers and other professionals in this field create the innovative methods and new trends with aim of increasing the productivity and improvement the business results. The area of project management and project scheduling is quite extensive and does not stop to grow and to develop. A widespread is the use of Timeline Diagrams in a field of project management, where they allow to visualize the steps of the business project, important milestones and deadlines, and to define the project progress. The scope of application the Timeline diagrams is extensive - from the displaying of historical facts to restoring of events' chronology at the case of some incidents. Timeline diagrams clearly reflect all information about events, what events have occurred and when, what happened before and after one or another event, what events will happen soon, so they are incredibly convenient for quick understanding of timing relations, for analysis and planning. Timeline diagram is a simple and intuitive way to display the list of events in a chronological order on a horizontal bar or line that represents the path of time from the left to right.
