Lay out phases and milestones on a scaled timeline, for the version of the plan you show people outside the project.
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| Phase | Start week | Weeks | Owner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A timeline is the outside view of a plan. Keep it to phases people outside the team recognise, and keep the task detail in the schedule.
A gantt shows tasks, dependencies and who is doing what. A timeline is the communication layer above it: fewer bars, no dependencies, readable in five seconds by someone who does not work on the project.
Between four and eight. Fewer and it says nothing; more and it becomes a schedule that happens to be badly formatted, which defeats the purpose of having a separate view.
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