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ms project london - Milestones

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Reply Thu 31 May 2007, 14:09Delegate Ian said...

Ian has attended:
Project Intro Intermediate course

Milestones

What is everyones thoughts on what Milestones should be etc?

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Reply Tue 5 Jun 2007, 13:10Trainer Andrew said...

RE: Milestones

Hi Ian

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

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