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How to Create a Timeline Diagram

How to Create a Timeline Diagram
A Timeline is a chart which displays a project plan schedule in chronological order. A Timeline is used in project management to depict project milestones and visualize project phases and show project progress. The graphic form of a timeline makes it easy to understand critical project milestones, such as the progress of a project schedule. Timelines are particularly useful for project scheduling or project management when accompanied with a Gantt chart. It captures the main of what the project will accomplish and how it will be done. making a project timeline is one of the most important skills a project manager needs have. Making comprehensive, accurate timelines allows you getting every project off in the best way. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to draw a timeline chart using a special library.
The vector stencils library "Timelines and milestones" contains 24 shapes of time scales with start and finish dates, time interval bars with progress indication and brackets, milestone, event and today markers for drawing the timeline diagrams using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
"A timeline is a way of displaying a list of events in chronological order, sometimes described as a project artifact. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates alongside itself and (usually) events labelled on points where they would have happened. ...
Another type of timeline is used for project management. In these cases, timelines are used to help team members to know what milestones need to be achieved and under what time schedule. For example, in the case of establishing a project timeline in the implementation phase of the life cycle of a computer system." [Timeline. Wikipedia]
The example "Design elements - Timelines solution" is included in the Timeline Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Timeline and milestone symbols
Timeline and milestone symbols, today marker, timeline, milestone, interval,
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The vector stencils library "Timelines and milestones" contains 24 shapes of timelines, time intervals, milestones.
Use it for drawing timeline and milistone diagrams in the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Timeline Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Plane Timeline
Plane Timeline, timeline,
Plane Interval
Plane Interval, interval,
Plane Interval (Progress)
Plane Interval (Progress), interval,
Gradient Timeline
Gradient Timeline, timeline,
Gradient Interval
Gradient Interval , interval,
Gradient Interval (Progress)
Gradient Interval (Progress), interval,
Stylish Timeline
Stylish Timeline, timeline,
Stylish Interval
Stylish Interval, interval,
Stylish Interval (Progress)
Stylish Interval (Progress), interval,
Cylindrical Timeline
Cylindrical Timeline, timeline,
Cylindrical Interval
Cylindrical Interval, interval,
Cylindrical Interval (Progress)
Cylindrical Interval (Progress), interval,
1D Timeline
1D Timeline, timeline,
Bracket interval
Bracket interval, interval,
Diamond Milestone
Diamond Milestone, milestone,
Circle Milestone
Circle Milestone, milestone,
X Milestone
X Milestone, milestone,
Square Milestone
Square Milestone, milestone,
Triangle Milestone
Triangle Milestone, milestone,
2 Triangle Milestone
2 Triangle Milestone, milestone,
Dagger Milestone
Dagger Milestone, milestone,
Line Milestone
Line Milestone, milestone,
Cylindrical Milestone
Cylindrical Milestone, milestone,
Today Marker
Today Marker, today marker,
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timeline diagram, timeline template Timeline Diagrams

timeline diagram, timeline template
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, helpful for professional drawing clear and intuitive Timeline Diagrams. Use it to 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, ideal for applying in presentations, reports, education materials, and other documentation.
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How to Draw a Gantt Chart

How to Draw a Gantt Chart
A Gantt chart is intended to provide a visualization of a project schedule. It is developed to help planning, coordinating, and tracking on project tasks implementation. One of the most critical resources for project implementation are time resources. Gantt chart - is one of the most convenient and popular ways of graphical representation of a project tasks progress in conjunction with the corresponding time consumption. Gantt chart's function is to show project tasks completed in progress and to make a project manager sure that project tasks were completed on time. ConceptDraw Office is a clear and easy-to-use tool for project management. It is a very handy visual tool that helps make a project processing clear.

Managing the task list

Four lessons explaining how to manage your task list in a Gantt chart. You will learn how to adjust your Gantt chart view, how to add/delete tasks or subtasks, how to change tasks hierarchy, how to show/hide subtasks.

Business diagrams & Org Charts with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

The business diagrams are in great demand, they describe the business processes, business tasks and activities which are executed to achieve specific organizational and business goals, increase productivity, reduce costs and errors. They let research and better understand the business processes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a powerful professional cross-platform business graphics and business flowcharting tool which contains hundreds of built-in collections of task-specific vector stencils and templates. They will help you to visualize and structure information, create various Business flowcharts, maps and diagrams with minimal efforts, and add them to your documents and presentations to make them successful. Among them are Data flow diagrams, Organization charts, Business process workflow diagrams, Audit flowcharts, Cause and Effect diagrams, IDEF business process diagrams, Cross-functional flowcharts, PERT charts, Timeline diagrams, Calendars, Marketing diagrams, Pyramids, Target diagrams, Venn diagrams, Comparison charts, Analysis charts, Dashboards, and many more. Being a cross-platform application, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is very secure, handy, free of bloatware and one of the best alternatives to Visio for Mac users.
Draw Business Process Diagrams
Draw Business Process Diagrams
Timeline charts presents events and time periods on a chronological scale. They are used in project management to visualize project milestones and upper level phases, and show project progress.
"Within the framework of project management, a milestone is an event that receives special attention. It is often put at the end of a stage to mark the completion of a work package or phase. Milestones can be put before the end of a phase so that corrective actions can be taken, if problems arise, and the deliverable can be completed on time.
In addition to signaling the completion of a key deliverable, a milestone may also signify an important decision or the derivation of a critical piece of information, which outlines or affects the future of a project. In this sense, a milestone not only signifies distance traveled (key stages in a project) but also indicates direction of travel since key decisions made at milestones may alter the route through the project plan." [Milestone (project management). Wikipedia]
This timeline diagram example was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Timeline Diagrams solution from the Management area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.
Timeline
Timeline, timeline, milestone,
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