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Program Management Milestones are markers of project progress that are used in project planning, scheduling, communication and reporting.
Project Failure They mark significant starts and completions with a single date as opposed to a date range. Milestones are typically
Design represented as a task of zero duration that may have dependencies. They are visualized with a diamond shape. The
following are common examples of milestones.

Phases
The start and end of work phases such as proof of concept, design, procurement, construction, development, testing and
launch. Phases are selected to be meaningful to progress and stakeholder communications. For example, a milestone such
 as "foundation completed" is more meaningful to stakeholders than "construction phase 1A."

Communication
Completion of a meeting such as a project kickoff event.

Decisions
Decisions such as selection of a vendor.

Creativity
Planning
Completion and approval of a plan.

Design
Completion and review of a design.

Resources
Deployment of resources such as a development team.

Site Map Processes

Architecture
Business Commencement or completion of processes. For example, "testing start."
Cities
Communication
Creativity
Deliverables
Culture
Decision Making Delivery of work to the client. Milestones often have commercial implications such as triggering a payment to a vendor.
Design
Economics Integration
Education
Employment
Getting things connected and working together.
Finance
Governance
Industries Environments
Information
Information Technology Building environments such as a lab, system or application. For example, "development build complete."
Infrastructure
Innovation
Investing Training
Knowledge
Management Training activities such as knowledge transfer to an operations team.
Marketing
Metrics
Motivation
Organizational Culture
Objectives & Goals
Problem Solving
Quality The completion of objectives and goals. For example, "information security review complete" or "production launch."
Risk Overview: Milestone
Small Business Type Project Planning
Society Definition (1) Markers of project progress.
Strategy A task of zero length that marks the start or completion of a
Definition (2)
Sustainability project phase, process or objective.
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