Add a Milestone

Milestones are used to indicate important achievements, completion of all tasks and work packages for a deliverable, completion of phases, and so on. Each milestone gives a measure of time required to complete the stage marked by it. Milestones break phases in a project into time segments, which aid project managers in planning, scheduling, and executing each phase.   

You can add milestones to your schedule and mark important stages in each phase, completion of a phase, etc. This helps you keep track of the progress of the stages and phases and take necessary measures to complete them as scheduled. Tracking each milestone cumulatively contributes to the timely completion of the whole project. Each milestone is to be assigned to the responsible contractor for effective tracking.

The project dashboards also provide a heads-up on the upcoming milestones and the remaining days and tasks. This helps PMs to analyze the tasks' progress and take necessary measures to achieve the successive milestones as planned and complete the project on time.

To add a milestone to a schedule

• Navigate to the schedule page of the project
• Identify the row containing the schedule item after which you want to insert the milestone
• Right-click on the row and choose 'Add' > 'Milestone'

A new milestone row gets added at the same outline level as the row under which you created the event and is indicated with the icon :

By default, the duration is set to zero, and the date is set to the end date of the previous task under which the checkpoint is included.

• Double-click inside the 'Task Name' cell and enter a label for the milestone.
• Set the dependency for the milestone if required. The date is automatically set to the next day after the predecessor task's end date. See Add dependencies for more details.
• Change the date for the milestone if required.

The milestones are also shown in the Gantt chart view of the project schedule.