Product Launch Timeline Maker

A launch fails at the handoffs: engineering finishes, QA has not started, marketing is waiting on a date. gantt-chart.io shows the phases and the dependencies between teams on one Gantt chart, so the work that sets your launch date is clear before it slips.

Phases: build, QA, beta, launch

Give each phase a bar and put the real work inside it. A beta with design partners and a fix window after it is easy to forget when the chart only shows a launch date.

Keep bars at the level of themes or epics. A roadmap with fifty rows is a backlog.

Critical path

Link tasks to what they wait on, and the critical path highlights the chain that determines launch day. A delay on that chain moves the launch by the same amount; a delay elsewhere may have slack. Knowing which is which tells you where to add people or cut scope.

Cross-team handoffs

Mark the handoffs between teams as milestones: build complete, QA sign-off, beta exit, launch approval. Each owner sees what they are waiting on and what waits on them.

Share a read-only link with sales, support and leadership instead of a slide that goes stale.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a launch timeline and a roadmap?

A roadmap shows themes and rough timing over months. A launch timeline breaks one release into phases, tasks and dependencies with a launch date at the end. The same chart can hold both.

Can AI draft the first version?

Describe the launch in plain text and the AI proposes tasks, durations and dependencies you then edit. The Free plan includes 50 AI credits per month.

Can I show estimates instead of fixed dates?

Yes. Mark later items as at risk or note that the dates are estimates so the chart is not read as a commitment.