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How to Create Milestones in Your Project

All of us have our own milestones that we want to share with other people. For example, with Facebook,
a milestone can be added and posted on your Timeline so that other people in your network might be
able to see it. In project management, a milestone refers to a different thing.

A milestone is put at the end of a phase in project management to signify that the said phase/project
has been completed successfully. In the project management framework, it is the only event that
receives special attention due to its nature. Another purpose of a milestone, as regards project
management, is to indicate an important decision that needs to be taken immediately before the end of
a work phase or a project. Thus, with this, a milestone can be considered to show both the distance
travelled and the direction of the travel.

How, then, does a project manager or specialist add a milestone event in his or her project plan? The
following section lays out the steps in successfully making a milestone event using Microsoft Project
2010.

Creating a Milestone

Upon opening your Microsoft Project, you will find the different tabs in the menu bar, which is found at
the topmost part of the Microsoft Project interface. Once you have successfully located this, do the
following steps in order to end up with a milestone:

 Choose the Gantt Chart found on the Task Views group in the View tab.
 Enter the desired name for you milestone on the first empty row in the Task Name field.
 Type “0” (zero) in the field that is labelled as “Duration”.
 Once you are done, press the “Enter” key.

A milestone usually does not have any duration (or 0 duration). However, if you wish to add a duration
to the milestone your are putting, another set of steps can be followed in order to end up with it.

Creating a Milestone with Duration

Follow the first two bullets/steps outlined above and then do the following steps:

 Go to Task Information found at the Properties group of the Task tab.


 Click on the Advanced button on the Task Information. You will find the Duration field here.
 Input your desired Duration for the particular milestone.
 Check the Mark task as milestone
 Click “OK”.

However, do take note that when you are changing a task into a milestone, you may not need to go
through adding a name in the Task Field (both for “with” and “without” duration) as the task is
considered to be the label for the milestone.
Project managers have to remember that although milestones can be effective in monitoring the
progress of your projects, there are still limits to its effectiveness as they show only the progress in the
critical areas.

Adding a project milestone is particularly easy once you follow the outlined steps above. However, if you
are using another project management software, a different steps of instructions may be given in order
for you to come up with the milestone.

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