What are the milestones and how can you define them?

Milestone is a term generally used in project management. It is an event that represents or shows the completion of major deliverable. According to definition milestone has duration of zero and no effort. Usually a milestone is used as a project checkpoint to validate how a project is progressing and revalidates the work.

Here we can take an example, If someone is building a house for their family, everyone talks about milestones, because nobody is familiar with the specific tasks: “The floors will be finished on Monday”, “The roof will be completed on Dec 20th “. We intuitively talk about milestones, not tasks, because we do not know how to build a house, and our friends ask us about the construction in terms of milestones: “When are you going to finish the roof?”, “When are you going to move in?”, etc

The house is the main deliverable, you are the project manager and your friends are the stakeholders. Sound familiar?

Here ProofHub gives you this feature of milestone which you can use in project management and can easily manage your projects. In ProofHub you can use milestones up to large extent. You can place several milestones in your schedule at planning time, estimate their completion date and compare it with the actual completion date. With the help of milestones you can check the status of project that if it is going according to schedule or running behind the schedule, and manage expectations of those that are involved in the project.