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How often should milestones be included

How often should milestones be included

How often should milestones be included

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How often should milestones be included in the project? Can you give a few examples?

RE: How often should milestones be included

It depends on what you're trying to achieve.  Since most engineering projects have some sort of intermediate product, such as design analysis reports, preliminary designs, board layouts, specifications, etc., they can all be milestones, or perhaps, inchstones.  Major program events such as design reviews, acceptance test, etc. are normally considered to be milestones.

As a general rule, line items should be on the order of 80 to 160 hrs, at which point, you should have some sort of quantifiable or measureable output that you can take create for if you are doing earned-value reporting.

Tasks that are too long, e.g., several hunderd hrs with no intermediate output can quickly lead you astray, until it's too late to recover.

TTFN

RE: How often should milestones be included

I had to use them also to include Payment Items as milestones, so the client (and us), can see when outcomes must be done, and be able to forecast cash flow.

RE: How often should milestones be included

I will always have a project milestone when the project has to interact with outside agencies.

For example completion of the telecom wiring duct system, ready for installation of telephone wiring by others would be a milestone. I thus get a lot more of them nearing the end of a construction project when the efforts of others start to come into play.

Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng

Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com

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