From the course: Project Management Tips
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What are project milestones?
- Project plans can be overwhelming. The more detailed you try to be, the longer your list of tasks becomes and the harder it is to manage. An easy way to make project plans more useful is to organize them using milestones. Milestones are major steps along the way that you can help you measure the progress you've made. For me, the best milestones are usually deliverables. In other words, they're tangible things that you need to deliver. Almost anything can be a deliverable. It can be a product prototype, a section of a building, or even a report or a presentation. The key point about a deliverable is that you can answer the yes or no question: "Has it been delivered?" If the deliverable is done, finished, and ready to go, then that milestone is complete. If it still needs a little more work, then it's incomplete. This approach helps to avoid the common problem of slipping schedules that's caused by tasks getting 90%…
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