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Creating a milestone task

Creating a milestone task - Microsoft Project Tutorial

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Creating a milestone task

A milestone is a great way to show a key point in a project. A chunk of work completed, a decision made, or even better, a customer approval the triggers a payment. Milestones are incredibly easy to create in Project. You can create as many as you want, because they don't have any duration, they won't affect your project schedule. So to create a new milestone, select where you want to put it in the schedule. In this case, I want to put it right above Choose new location. So I click that cell and then on the TASK tab, go to the Insert section and click Milestone. The Project inserts a new milestone and you can see the duration is set to 0 days, you can see there is a diamond in the timescale and that's the indication it's a milestone. We're going to type a new name, Requirements approved. Well it doesn't have a date, so we want to link this to the task that shows that this milestone has been achieved. Well, that's reviewing the requirements with management. So in this case you select…

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