Excel sheets are used widely for project management to identify critical paths, analyze the latest trends to make effective decisions, plan the projects, and track the projects.

Project plan templates are not always broad one-size-fits-all documents. Sometimes they are targeted at particular kinds of projects - which is the case with this free conference planning checklist.

Microsoft: Project Budget Excel Template and Jaxworks: Project Cost Summary Template Many projects have resulted in cost overruns because budgets were not monitored more closely.