Planning template · 32 topics
Project plan mind map template
A project plan mind map with goals, scope, people, timeline, budget, risks and reviews, ready to open and fill in for your own project.

Who it is for
- A team lead who needs one page that shows the whole project before the kickoff meeting.
- A freelancer agreeing scope, milestones and hand-offs with a client.
- A student group splitting a term project into tasks and deadlines.
How to use it
- Open the template in the editor and rename the central topic to your project.
- Work through one branch at a time, replacing each example with your own goals, people and dates.
- Delete the branches you do not need, then export a PNG to share or a .xmind file to keep working.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Project plan
- Goals
- Outcome in one sentence
- Who benefits
- How we measure success
- Scope
- In scope
- Out of scope
- Open questions
- People
- Owner
- Team and their roles
- Stakeholders to keep informed
- Who signs off
- Timeline
- Kickoff
- Milestones
- First draft
- Review
- Launch
- Deadline
- Budget
- People and time
- Tools and services
- Contingency
- Risks
- What could go wrong
- How likely, and how bad
- How we prevent or respond
- Reviews
- Weekly check-in
- Retrospective after launch
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