Free PERT Chart Templates
How to Use the PERT Chart Templates in Creately
- Choose a template that suits your needs
Pick a PERT chart template for your project’s task network. Click “Edit This Template” to open it and place your activities.
- Sign in or create a free Creately account
Log in to Creately, or sign up free. Saving and sharing your pert chart needs an account, which you can create in seconds.
- Open the template and customize it
Lay out tasks as a network of nodes and arrows, add duration estimates, and trace dependencies to reveal the critical path.
- Add task nodes and connect them by dependency
- Enter optimistic, likely and pessimistic time estimates
- Sequence activities to show what must precede what
- Highlight the critical path through the network
- Mark milestones and slack/float where useful
- Keep the network readable
Smart connectors keep dependency arrows attached as you rearrange tasks, so a growing PERT network stays clear instead of crossing itself.
- Collaborate with your team
Work on it together. Bring in teammates or stakeholders to edit the pert chart at the same time, discuss details with in-app comments, and @mention people for input.
- Save, export, or present
Export or present when ready. Download your pert chart as PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF for reports and slides, share a view-only link, or present it directly from Creately.
FAQs about PERT Chart Templates
They are. You can access and edit the majority of pert chart templates for free on a basic account, with no download needed. Premium templates and some pro features are available on paid plans if you need them later.
Absolutely. Your pert chart exports as PNG, JPEG, PDF or SVG, so you can insert it into Word or PowerPoint, attach it to documentation, or share it as a standalone file.
PERT templates help you plan and analyze schedules:
- Activity-on-node networks - tasks as boxes, dependencies as arrows
- Critical path views - the longest dependent chain
- Three-point estimates - optimistic/likely/pessimistic timing
- Milestone networks - key checkpoints across the plan
- Dependency maps - what blocks or enables each task
A PERT chart shows tasks and their dependencies as a network and is best for analyzing sequence and the critical path; a Gantt chart plots the same tasks against a calendar timeline. Many planners use both.