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Business cases that survive a finance review. Bid responses that answer every requirement. And a Gantt chart that also tells you who is double-booked.
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The templates
Not generic spreadsheets with a logo on top. Each one exists because the job it does kept coming up, and the alternatives were either a blank sheet or a piece of software nobody wanted to learn.
Type how many people a task needs each week. The bar draws itself, the dates calculate, and every person who is committed twice over turns red. Weekly, daily or fortnightly. Four editable holiday calendars.
A five-year investment appraisal built the way finance functions expect one. NPV, IRR, payback and ROI, a downside and upside scenario on a single cell, and a sensitivity grid that shows how fast the case falls apart.
Five files covering the whole bid cycle: a nine-section response template, forty model answers, a compliance matrix that flags what nobody has answered, a bid/no-bid scorecard and the checklist for the last hour.
Why the Gantt is different
Every Gantt shows when work happens. Almost none show whether you can actually staff it. This one crosses your people against the plan and turns red wherever someone is committed beyond capacity.
It catches the situation that sinks most plans: the team is big enough in total, but four individuals are double-booked and nobody noticed until week nine.
Free download
A working edition of the Gantt planner — enough to run a real project of up to fifteen tasks. No sign-up wall, no drip campaign, no card.
One email with the download link. We will not sell your address or send you anything you did not ask for.
The paid edition adds per-person overbooking, four holiday calendars, a summary sheet and a grid of 52 periods by 50 tasks.
About
Runbook Press publishes operating documents: the spreadsheets and templates that get used on the day, not the frameworks that get admired in a binder.
Everything here comes out of enterprise delivery work — service management, business cases defended in front of boards, tenders won and lost. The templates are the ones we wanted to exist and kept rebuilding from scratch.
No macros, no add-ins, nothing locked. Every file opens in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice, and survives being emailed to a client who has none of your settings.
Licence. Use them inside your own organisation and on client engagements, including commercial consulting work. Reselling or redistributing the templates themselves is not permitted.
Questions before buying? Write to hello@runbookpress.com — happy to say whether a template fits your case.