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Timeline

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˈtaɪmlaɪn/nounCore term

In project management, timeline means: The planned order and dates of the main activities and milestones of a project, often shown as a line or chart.

In Turkish: zaman çizelgesi, takvim, süreç planı

How it is used

A general, everyday word for the project's schedule, common in presentations and client conversations. Timelines can be tight, realistic or ambitious, and they can slip or be revised.

Example sentences

  1. The client asked if we could shorten the timeline by a month.

  2. Here is the high-level timeline: design in March, build in April and May, launch in June.

Common collocations

  • tight timeline
  • project timeline
  • realistic timeline
  • revised timeline
  • high-level timeline
  • milestoneAn important point or event in a project schedule, such as the end of a phase or the approval of a key document. It marks progress and takes no time itself.
  • deadlineThe latest date or time by which a task, deliverable or project must be finished.
  • Gantt chartA bar chart that shows project tasks as horizontal bars on a timeline, so you can see when each task starts and ends and how tasks depend on each other.
  • baselineThe approved version of a project's scope, schedule or budget, saved so that real progress can be compared against it later.

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