# Website development timeline worksheet

Companion: https://www.ajjuiglesias.com/blog/website-development-timeline

Use actual scope and team availability. The article's 20-working-day example is illustrative, not a promised or typical delivery time.

## Scope and dates
- Primary visitor task:
- Pages/templates/functions included:
- Features excluded or planned later:
- Requested launch date and reason:
- Booked team availability:
- Working days, time zone, holidays and absences:
- Readiness conditions and schedule start event:

## Content and decisions
- Content author, reviewer and approver:
- Approved content available now:
- Missing content/images/translations and due dates:
- Decision owner and reserved review windows:
- Feedback consolidation and approval method:
- Review rounds included:

## Milestones
For each milestone record:
- Deliverable and acceptance criteria:
- Required input or predecessor:
- Responsible person:
- Effort estimate and elapsed-time assumptions:
- Review/approval window:
- Forecast finish:
- Open uncertainty and next action:

## Risks and changes
- Integration/access checks required before estimating:
- External approval dependencies:
- Contingency reserved and the risk it addresses:
- Added requirement and schedule effect:
- Scope/date tradeoff decision and approver:

## Release and handover
- Final testing window and defect review:
- Migration work included or excluded:
- Release decision owner:
- Deployment and recovery owner:
- Live verification tasks:
- Operational handover and first review:
- Current forecast and assumptions requiring confirmation: