Agile project management is an iterative, incremental way to coordinate activities for engineering, information technology, and other business areas. Because it is a highly flexible, interactive methodology, teams can quickly identify and respond to challenges, and ultimately deliver better outcomes, faster.
In an ever-changing agile project, a template can provide structure and framework. While it’s true that you must remain nimble and adaptable, a template helps keep everyone on the same page and tracks requirements.
In this article, you’ll find eight agile project management templates in Excel. We’ve also included Agile project management templates in Smartsheet, a work execution platform that empowers you to better manage agile projects with real-time collaboration and process automation.
An agile project plan is based on features. The plan estimates how long it will take for each feature to be delivered, without much detail on how it will be delivered. And because the project plans are focused on features, you can group similar features into sprints.
An agile project plan is always changing. Once the plan is developed, the project team needs to maintain it and update status and timelines accordingly.
Also known as an agile project schedule, this template lets you add your tasks, who is responsible, start and end dates, and status. The duration for each task will be automatically calculated. This template also features a Gantt chart (a visual representation of your project timeline), which will automatically adjust when you add your own data to the table.
Note: when you add your own dates to the table, the Gantt chart will automatically adjust, however you may notice that there is a lot of white space at the beginning of your chart and it may display dates you did not enter. You can fix this by adjusting the spacing between the dates. Right-click on a date at the top of your Gantt chart and select Format Axis. In the pop-up box, on the left, select scale. Adjust the number in the box labeled Minimum. You will have to add numbers incrementally to adjust the spacing and get it to look the way you’d like.
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