Milestones are important events in project management that mark the completion of deliverables or phases. They can signal that a key task was finished on time or that a critical decision was made. Milestones allow project managers to accurately assess whether a project is on schedule when used with scheduling methods like PERT or CPM. However, milestones only show progress on critical paths and may ignore non-critical tasks. Milestone Professional is a project scheduling software that helps users create presentation-ready Gantt charts and reports to keep projects organized and track their status through milestones. It provides features like stoplight templates and single page presentation reports.

1. Project management
software
Milestones Professional
Livia Dronca, anul IV CTI

2. Milestone in project management
• Within the framework of project management, a milestone is an
event that receives special attention. It is often put at the end of
a stage to mark the completion of a work package or phase.
Milestones can be put before the end of a phase so that
corrective actions can be taken, if problems arise, and the
deliverable can be completed on time.
• In addition to signaling the completion of a key deliverable, a
milestone may also signify an important decision or the
derivation of a critical piece of information, which outlines or
affects the future of a project.

3. Milestone in project management
• A milestone not only signifies distance traveled (key stages in a
project) but also indicates direction of travel since key decisions
made at milestones may alter the route through the project plan.
• When combined with a scheduling methodology such
as Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) or
the Critical Path Method(CPM), milestones allow project
management to much more accurately determine whether or
not the project is on schedule.

4. Milestone in project management
•
Milestones are frequently used to monitor the progress, but there are
limitations to their effectiveness.
• They usually show progress only on the critical path, and ignore non-critical
activities.
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It is common for resources to be moved from non-critical activities to critical
activities to ensure that milestones are met.
• This gives the impression that the project is on schedule when actually some
activities are being ignored.
• Milestones are like dashboard reviews of a project. Number of activities which
were planned at the beginning of the project with their individual timelines
are reviewed for their status. It also gives an opportunity to check the health
of the project.

5. Milestone Professional
• Is a project scheduling software developed by KIDASA Software.
• Is a Windows-based program designed to create presentationready Gantt Charts and schedules for users.
• Is the fast, easy way to create schedules and reports for projects.
schedules for users.

6. Milestone Professional
• Provides businesses and government organizations with a simple
and practical approach that makes scheduling any project a
breeze.
• Makes scheduling, tracking, and presenting projects incredibly
fast and easy.
• Useful solution for keeping projects organized and ready to be
presented at meetings.

7. Key Features
• Make presentation reports in minutes.
• A variety of stoplight templates to make it easy to see the status
of your project.
• Present cost, earned value and more.
• Create a PDF, publish HTML for your web site or add to
PowerPoint.
• Single page presentation reports.

8. Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestone_(project_management)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestones_Professional
• http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Diary-OrganizersCalendar/Milestones-Professional-2006.shtml