Milestones Deadlines
Milestones
Important components of the project which help to control time of task completion are milestones and deadlines.
Milestone is a task, crowning an important part of the project. Milestones are indicators of key points of the project. Without reaching them another series of tasks cannot be started. Milestones are often final tasks of project phases. Milestone has always a null duration, i.e. it just defines the important stage of the project, but there is no time scheduled to it. For example it can be a signing of an important document, shipment of the work to a client, getting the payment, etc. On the graphic part of the diagram they are marked by.
Changing a task into a milestone can be done by the following methods (do not forget to select the task first!):
- Use Milestone in menu Tasks.
- Call the context menu of the task and use Milestone. In both cases Milestone command will be marked in menu, indicating that the given task is a milestone.
- In floating dialog General put the mark in checkbox Milestone, section Info. Changes will be assigned to the task right after you quit the dialog by clicking with mouse on any place of the document out of the dialog.
By default floating dialogs are located on the right part of the screen. However they can be moved to any part of the screen. They also can be left floated or can be docked to any side of the program window. In details about operating floating dialogs read here.
- In modal dialog Task information on tab General, put the mark in checkbox Milestone in section Info.
Call the dialog in menu Tasks with command Task information. After adding notes, do not forget to press OK, to save the changes.
Note: In floating dialog Milestones can be assigned to several tasks simultaneously.
To remove milestone status from the task, select the command again and the mark will disappear.
Task: In our example there can be such a task as "Fix the budget" . In fact, this task splits the project in two parts: planning phase and completing phase, as before fixing the budget we realized our actions only on paper and we then switch to their implementation. Let’s give it Milestone status by one of the mentioned above methods.
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