Top Project Management Excel Templates

Find the top project management templates in Microsoft Excel and Smartsheet that you can easily download and use for free to help you track project status, communicate progress among team members and stakeholders, and manage issues as they arise.

By Erica Green Updated June 18, 2024

Project Tracker Template

Manage, track, and update all project details, and gain insight into how the project is progressing against your project plan with this project tracker template. Document project details, like tasks, status, priority, deadlines, budget, resource hours and more within the template.

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Use the Smartsheet Project Tracking Template

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Smartsheet Simple Project Plan Template

This solution template, which includes a task tracker sheet, status report, and a project dashboard, is a simple, best practice approach for managing the work required to initiate, plan, and launch your project. Share with your team to optimize efficiency, gain consistency, and adopt a data-driven process for any project based work.

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Agile Project Plan Template

Visually manage project schedules, sprints, and task durations, track agile requirements, establish timelines, and organize resources to ensure all sprints of your Agile project stay on track with this Agile project plan template.

Download the Excel Agile Project Plan Template

Use the Smartsheet Agile Backlog and Sprint Planning Template

Gantt Chart Project Template

Organize and track simple projects and timelines on a horizontal bar chart with this Gantt chart project template. Input task names, start and end dates, and duration times, to identify dependencies, create a high-level view of your project timeline, and keep tasks and projects on track.

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Use the Smartsheet Gantt Chart Template

Project Timeline Template

Track project progress, identify potential delays, and mitigate issues before they occur with this project timeline template. Monitor how your project is progressing and how long each task actually takes to ensure that it stays on schedule.

Download the Excel Project Timeline Template

Use the Smartsheet Project Schedule Management Template

Ready-to-use templates for your next project

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Project Budgeting Template

Ensure your project stays within budget by tracking all expenses, like labor, materials, fixed costs, and actuals. Manage additional spend and provide insights into budget variance so all team members and stakeholders are kept in the loop with this easy-to-use template.

Download the Excel Project Budgeting Template

Use the Smartsheet Project Budgeting Template

To-Do List Template

Document important hourly, daily, or weekly tasks with this helpful to-do list template. Organize personal or business tasks so you can ensure you’re focusing on the right priorities, and view your tasks across the entire week to stay ahead.

Download the Excel To-Do List Template

Use the Smartsheet To-Do List Template

Project Risk Template

Ensure you identify all projects risks, like scope creep and ill-defined dependencies, with this project risk template. Identify and mitigate risks early in the project so they don’t affect budget or deadlines, and keep all stakeholders in the loop on potential issues.

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Use the Smartsheet Project Risk Template

Project Timesheet Template

Track, allocate, and manage project resources and give team members and stakeholders insight into who is working on what. Identify resource availability on a weekly or monthly basis, and manage multiple projects at once without over allocating resources.

Download the Excel Timesheet Template

Use the Smartsheet Project and Resource Management Template

Issue Tracker Template

Identify and track how potential issues could affect your project timeline, and mitigate any that do occur with this issue tracker template. Assign team members to solve problems as soon as they arise to avoid delays and ensure accountability.

Download the Excel Issue Tracker Template

Use the Smartsheet Project Schedule Management Template

Project Management Dashboard

Quickly communicate the status of your project and share the big picture view with key stakeholders and other team members. Share the high-level status of your project and report on the most important data and information.

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Use the Smartsheet Project Management Dashboard

Project Management Guide

In this 101 guide to project management, we’ll demystify the process and provide tips, best practices, and resources to help you successfully execute your projects.

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