These excel Gantt Chart templates show your product development plans for the entire year. They allow you to capture the time frame for each release and include important details for each phase, such as the start and end dates, assigned team, and status. They are great for coordinating delivery and new product development planning with other teams. You can also use these templates to share how your product plan is progressing with executives.
This template is perfect for capturing your annual release plan in one view. You can change the color of the bars to visualize which team is responsible for each phase.
Understanding Gantt Charts
Gantt charts help teams to plan work around deadlines and properly allocate resources. Projects planners also use Gantt charts to maintain a bird’s eye view of projects. They depict, among other things, the relationship between the start and end dates of tasks, milestones, and dependent tasks.
Five Phases of Product development process
Product development starts with idea generation — these innovative ideas go through screening before reaching the final phase, production and commercialization, reports Chron.
- Idea Generation
- Screening
- Concept Development
- Development and Commercialization
- Improvisation with Feedbacks
Download and use Product Planning Gantt Chart excel template
Now, let us look into how to use this Product Planning Gantt Chart template. You should have Microsoft Office/ Microsoft Excel installed in your system.
Post installing Excel or Spreadsheet, download the zip file of this template, extract the template using WinRAR or 7Zip decompressing software. Once extracted, you can open the file using Excel and start entering data or customizing the template. You can change currency and fields but with caution.