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Multi-Layer Application Development Timeline

This application development project, summarized in OnePager, was created from a more complex plan in either Microsoft Project or Smartsheet. It depicts the development of a multi-layer application and tracks dependencies and deliverables across multiple internal and external teams.

Timeline of a multi-layer application development project being built by several internal and external engineering teams.


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Multi-Layer Application Development Timeline Features

The project plan features:

  • Grouping tasks into swimlanes for each responsible team
  • Assigning a unique color for each phase of the project
  • Display of cross-team dependencies
  • Alignment of multiple tasks into the same row, creating a timeline format for sequential activities
  • Display of key milestones along the top time axis, ensuring maximum visibility.

This multi-layer application development timeline was created using OnePager, a project timeline tool that works with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Project Server, or Project Online.

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Sample Files

This application development timeline was created using the following files, which can be used to create something similar for your own team. Download the examples that work with your favorite project management tool:

Microsoft Project Samples

Multi-Layer Application Development Project.mpp (Microsoft Project Schedule)

Multi-Layer Application Development Project (Project).tat (OnePager Template for Microsoft Project)


Microsoft Project Instructions

To build a multi-layer application development timeline like the example above, follow these instructions:

  1. Download the sample files above. There is a Microsoft Project file that all of the key tasks, plus a OnePager template that will help define the layout of the chart itself. Save both files to your desktop.

  2. Open the Microsoft Project file.

  3. Once Microsoft Project is open, go to Add-Ins and click the OnePager Pro button.

  4. On the OnePager start screen, click NEW to build a new timeline.

  5. We need to change OnePager's default template to the one downloaded above. To do this, click on Change, and then BROWSE FILES to the OnePager template (*.tat) file. This OnePager template contains all of the data-driven formatting (styles, layout, etc.) that make the timeline look the way that it does.

  6. Once the custom OnePager template is selected, click on Create New Chart to build your application development timeline. It should look similar to the example at the top of this article.

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Smartsheet Samples

Multi-Layer Application Development Project (Smartsheet).xlsx (Excel for import into Smartsheet)

Multi-Layer Application Development Project (Smartsheet).tat (OnePager Template for Smartsheet)


Smartsheet Instructions

To build a multi-layer application development timeline like the example above, follow these instructions:

  1. Download the sample files above. The Excel file contains all of the key tasks, and will be imported into your Smartsheet account, while the OnePager template will help define the layout of the timeline itself. Save both files to your desktop.

  2. To import the Excel file into Smartsheet, first log into your Smartsheet account.

  3. In Smartsheet, click on + Start a New Project, and then from the Import tile, choose Microsoft Excel:

    Import from Excel into Smartsheet

  4. Point Smartsheet to the Excel file that you downloaded above and press Continue. On the Import Settings, review the name of your sheet, and then click Import::

    Finish importing from Excel into Smartsheet

  5. Now that the sample project has been imported into your Smartsheet account, go to your desktop, and click the OnePager button.

  6. On the OnePager start screen, click NEW to build a new timeline.

  7. Go to Select > BROWSE Smartsheet, log into your Smartsheet account, and then point OnePager to the example project.

  8. We need to change OnePager's default template to the one downloaded above. To do this, click on Change, and then BROWSE FILES to the OnePager template (*.tat) file. This OnePager template contains all of the data-driven formatting (styles, layout, etc.) that make the timeline look the way that it does.

  9. Once the custom OnePager template is selected, click on Create New Chart to build your timeline. It should look similar to the example at the top of this article.

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