Project Management Tips: Working With Tasks and Milestones In Your Project Schedule

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OVERVIEW
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When your project team doesn't have an organized, well-structured project schedule that accurately represents the deliverables and work needed to complete the project, it's easy for them to encounter problems such as:
* Losing track of important deliverables or activities that are needed for the project
* Confusion about the meaning or purpose of a task listed in the project schedule
* Discovering at the 11th hour that the project team is going to be late completing or delivering something for the project
A well-structured and well-managed project schedule is essential to running a successful project; it can help you to:
* Predict the work required to deliver what your customer wants
* Predict the people required to deliver what your customer wants
* Predict the time required to deliver what your customer wants
* Predict the costs required to deliver what your customer wants
To create an organized, well-structured project schedule that accurately represents the deliverables and work needed to complete the project, follow these 4 best practices:
* Create a Milestone for Each Project Deliverable
* Add Tasks Required to Complete Each Project Deliverable
* Create Task and Milestone Naming Conventions
* Create Task Granularity Rules
If you follow these four principles for working with tasks and milestones in your project schedule, then you should be able to:
* Keep better track of important deliverables and activities that are needed for your project.
* Provide more clarity to your project team members about the tasks that are listed in your project schedule.
* More accurately track your team's progress on the tasks in your project... and predict earlier if things are running behind schedule.
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