project server training london - Milestone

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Thu 1 Mar 2007, 09:56 Delegate Karen said...

Karen has attended:
Project Intro Intermediate course

Milestone

How best to identify a milestone, & what is their purpose?

Thu 1 Mar 2007, 17:27 Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Milestone

Hi Karen

A milestone is used to indicate a particular point in your project's life. To create a miletone in Project just add a task an set its duration to zero. Project redraws the the task on the Gantt chart as a black diamond plus its start date.

Milestones are useful to clearly indicate key dates in your project.

Hope this is helpful - contact us again if you have any further questions.

Thanks

Andrew

MS Project tip:

Set default task type - Project 2010

a. In Project, click on the File tab
b. Select Options from left hand side
c. Click on Schedule to set the scheduling options
d. Set the Default Task type box to your chosen option
i. Generally if you plan/estimate your projects using durations you should use fixed duration, and untick the box New tasks are effort driven, if you plan/estimate with person hours use fixed work, or for plans estimated with the proportion of resources time use fixed units, and untick the box New tasks are effort driven)
e. Click OK to apply your changes

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