Question

It’s important to include intermediate milestones in the project schedule. They give you and your client a way to detect slips in the schedule. A milestone is depicted on the project schedule as a task with duration?

Answer 1

A project can be defined as activity that focuses to create a unique product or service in a definite timeline. Project scheduling is something to tag timeline to completion of each activity. It is important to track the progress of a project and detect any fault. Deadline is defined for these activities.The timeline is very critical in the success of the project.

A milestone can be defined as a specific point in the project life-cycle which is used to measure the progress of a project. If we define intermediate milestone it will give more control over the project and plays an important role in the project's success.

There are various steps and techniques followed in project scheduling .

Steps are:

1) Define activities

2) Sequence activities

3) Time estimate

4) Develop schedule

Techniques used in progress tracking are :

1) Gantt chart

2) CPM

3) PERT

Hope this helps.