How do you like to represent "phase complete" milestones?

[CAS]

Greetings. Say I have a project with a bunch of phases, or task
groups, and I want to include milestones for "phase complete" or "task
group complete".

I may have different reasons for doing this: Sometimes I want to report
on hitting the milestones of finishing a phase or task group.
Sometimes I want to filter and visually display just these milestones
to executives. I want to set up the dependencies such that one phase
or task group starts only after the previous one is finished.
Sometimes I want to display just the summary tasks to executives and
show the dependencies between them.

Anyway, I wonder what people's preferred method of representing "phase
complete" or "task group complete" milestones is, or under what
circumstances you use one method versus another:

(a) mark the summary task as a milestone
(b) put the "phase complete" milestones under the summaries
(c) put the "phase complete" milestones at the same level as the
summaries

Thanks!

Connie
Connie Stillinger
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

Greetings. Say I have a project with a bunch of phases, or task
groups, and I want to include milestones for "phase complete" or "task
group complete".

I may have different reasons for doing this: Sometimes I want to report
on hitting the milestones of finishing a phase or task group.
Sometimes I want to filter and visually display just these milestones
to executives. I want to set up the dependencies such that one phase
or task group starts only after the previous one is finished.
Sometimes I want to display just the summary tasks to executives and
show the dependencies between them.

Anyway, I wonder what people's preferred method of representing "phase
complete" or "task group complete" milestones is, or under what
circumstances you use one method versus another:

(a) mark the summary task as a milestone
(b) put the "phase complete" milestones under the summaries
(c) put the "phase complete" milestones at the same level as the
summaries

Thanks!

Connie
Connie Stillinger
(e-mail address removed)

There is beauty in putting the milestone at the same level as the summary
and linking the summary to the milestone. This ensures that there never is
a sub task that gets accidentally added between the 'last task' and the
milestone. this is how I tend to do it but there are those that get very
nervous about summary tasks having links on them. But in this case there
is no danger.