Milestones are tools used in project management to mark specific points along a project timeline. Milestones do not impact project duration. Instead, they focus on major progress points that must be reached to achieve success.
Milestones can add significant value to project scheduling, it allow project managers to much more accurately determine whether or not the project on schedule. By constraining the dates associated with milestones, the critical path can be determined for major schedule intervals in addition to the entire project. Slack/float can also be calculated on each schedule interval. This segmentation of the project schedule into intervals allows earlier indication of schedule problems and a better view into the activities whose completion is critical.
For example in our scenario we have task called “Design signoff” as one of the milestone until this is completed we can’t begin with implementation of design.
To mark a Milestone just set the duration to “0” and the project will convert the task to milestone.
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| Adding Milestones |
Once you define all your milestones, on the View tab, in the Data group, click a filter in the filter list. Select the Milestone as filter, this will show all milestones in gantt chart. You can use this to showcase project milestone reporting.
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| Filter Option |
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