Milestones are critical events which receive special attention within the project management framework. Besides serving as markers that indicate a project’s progress milestones allow you to group Tasks, establish relationship between Tasks, and organize their order. They ensure the project is moving in the right direction.A completion of a milestone is a major step towards completion of the project.
Scenario:
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To understand Milestones better let us consider an IT Test Environment SetUp Project: Superfically speaking, an IT Test Environment Set Up can be split into:
These major tasks - that outline the entire project - which in turn will contain several other tasks are known as Milestones. |
Advantages:
Uninterrupted workflow with no delays
Proper classification of Tasks, their relationships and dependencies.
Clear presentation of 'who does what, when, and for how long'
Ensure projects are onschedule.