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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.

Project plan mind map template preview

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

  1. Open the template in the editor and rename the central topic to your project.
  2. Work through one branch at a time, replacing each example with your own goals, people and dates.
  3. 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

Take your maps to iPhone and iPad

MindmapPal for iPhone and iPad opens .xmind, OPML and Markdown files, works offline, and keeps every map as a file you own.

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