From the course: Microsoft Project Step by Step: Planning for Successful Project Management

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Enter milestone tasks

Enter milestone tasks

Identify significant events in your plan as milestones and take advantage of reporting features that showcase these events to leadership or stakeholders. You can make a milestone either by typing in zero duration or you can do this another way with a great shortcut on the Ribbon, the Milestone button. Now, lets talk about how you might use these in your plan. You might have checkpoints in your schedule, such as Phase 1 complete, Phase 2 complete, if you have gates. Great place for a milestone. I've even seen milestones in non-profit organizations. Maybe we have a Go/No Go decision. Do we have funding to continue to the next phase? Do we have approval from the community to continue to the next phase? A lot of people use milestones to represent sending that deliverable out to a client. We've delivered our prototype as an example. Something I think you should consider if you're the project manager of your plan, put a milestone in where you want to do an audit of your plan. Great idea…

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