Enter the name of the milestone. This field is required.

Click Select to choose any predecessors for the milestone. Predecessor plan objects define constraint relationships for the plan object being created and allow you to sequence the milestones in a project or program. For example, if Milestone A is named as a predecessor to Milestone B, then Milestone B cannot be completed until Milestone A has been completed.

Select a team member from the drop-down list to be assigned as the milestone owner.

Enter a brief description of the milestone. Enter up to 4,000 characters.

Enter the date on which the work associated with the milestone actually began (this may be a date other than the current date). If an actual start time is not entered, the actual start date is set to the first time that the percentage done is edited or the first time at which the actual effort is reported for projects or programs in which cost is being tracked. This field appears only if the project or program is in manual execution mode. For other execution modes, this value is automatically calculated.

Enter the number of days in which the completion of the milestone is expected to take or leave the field blank. If you enter a specific number, a Calculate check box appears during an edit of the milestone. If you select that check box, your entered number is overridden by an automatically calculated number from the system.

If you plan to use this milestone as a single date, enter 0.

Enter the date by which it is estimated that the milestone will be complete. If a duration has been specified, this date will automatically be calculated based on the estimated start and duration values.

Enter the date on which the work associated with the milestone was actually completed (this may be a date other than the current date). If a finish time is not entered, it is automatically set to the date and time at which the milestone is edited to be 100% complete. This field appears only if the project or program is in manual execution mode. For other execution modes, this value is automatically calculated.

Enter the percentage of the milestone work that is completed. If deliverables are associated to the milestone, this is automatically calculated based on the percentage complete of the deliverables.

Select the status of the milestone from the drop-down list. Green indicates no problems.Yellow indicates caution. Red indicates an alert of high risk. If deliverables are associated to the milestone, this is automatically calculated based on the status of the deliverables.

Enter a description of the reasons for the status designation. Enter up to 4,000 characters.

Sets up notification of a change in the status of a milestone.

Sets up notification of a change in the percentage of completion of a milestone.

Sets up notification of a change in the estimated finish date of a milestone.

Sets up notification of a status change to red. Red is an alert of high risk.

Sets up notification of a change in the due date of the milestone.

Sets up notification of the passing of the due date without milestone completion.

[x]Days Before Due Date

Sets up notification to alert when the specified number of days before the milestone due date remains. The default number is 3 days.

[x] Days After Due Date

Sets up notification to alert when the specified number of days after the milestone due date has passed. This includes the number of days overdue. The default number is 3 days.

Sets up notification of a change in the state of the milestone.

Sets up notification of a change in the owner of the milestone.

Sets up notification of the deletion of the milestone.

Sets up notification of the completion of the milestone.

Identifies the probability that the milestone will be completed by the due date. Select either Very High, High, Very Low, Low, Medium, Unavailable.

Enter a brief description of the reasons for the Risk designation. Enter up to 4,000 characters.