Milestones are ideal for breaking down a project into multiple deliverables or phases, where each milestone is a collection of tasks with its own metrics and scheduling.
Simply put, a milestone is a collection of tasks inside of a project. The milestone feature makes it easy to break down larger projects with a lot of tasks into smaller deliverables. For example, a milestone could be a project phase, or an Agile sprint. They are flexible and have an unlimited number of practical […]
If you manage a lot of tasks across multiple projects and milestones it is important to find the right task when adding time. Here are a few tips on how to quickly locate a task that belongs to a milestone and add time to it. Add time from the milestones tab The milestones tab has […]
Time tracking and task management graphs in the milestone gives project managers a visual overview of milestone health. Similar to the project dashboard, the milestone graphs will reveal milestone progress by task status, task modules, task assignees, as well as time tracked on milestone tasks broken down by person and module. The goal of implementing […]
You can reschedule a milestone by changing its due date. If the due date is changed, there are options to also change the due date for the tasks. Note: These options become available once the due date is changed. In this example, the date was changed to a date in the future. This gives you […]
There are two places where you can view the tasks belonging to a specific milestone. 1. Any milestone view page Tasks are displayed when you click the Tasks tab. Note: This is the default view when viewing a milestone. 2. The milestone listing page Get a quick look at the nested tasks in the milestone by […]
With how Intervals works project milestones are akin to a sprint and the milestone’s graph tab can be used to view a burn down / burn up type of view based on the status of the tasks. Intervals is designed in a fashion that does not include traditional task dependencies like the waterfall method and […]
Milestones and can be used to manage a multi-task deliverable. They exist below the project level within the project hierarchy, and this means you cannot have a milestone be part of multiple projects. A milestone can be used to show the status of each task that is associated with it. Milestones are completely optional. We almost never use them […]
Each task and milestone has a unique email address containing its number. For example, to email task #123, send an email to task+123@your-subdomain.intervalsonline.com. Where 123 is the task number, your-subdomain is replaced with your account’s sub-domain, and intervalsonline is replaced with the domain you are currently using. When an authorized sender emails the task or milestone, […]