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Navigate to the Advanced tab in the Task Information dialog, and you’ll see that the task’s Mark task as milestone option was automatically selected.Open up the task properties by double clicking it (or using Properties > Information from within the ribbon).

Set the “Deliver” task duration to “0 days”, and the default behavior for Microsoft Project is to make a task a milestone when you set a task duration to “0 days”. The “Deliver” summary task is both a Microsoft Project milestone and a deadline.

Here is a simplified representation of the template seen in Microsoft Project Gantt Chart View: The final stage is both a deadline and a milestone, which is the summary task titled Deliver. I have a Microsoft Project template that I’ve provided to client teams with the intent that it’s reused for planning projects against a newly implemented PMO mandated cycle: Initiate, Plan, Execute, Deliver.Įach of the first 3 stages are allotted 5 days to complete projects also always begin on a Monday and end on a Friday. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to correctly change the project start date in a way that will also move your task deadlines in a single step. That is, the start date will change, but task deadline dates will not move / shift with the updated schedule. If you have Task Deadlines and don’t choose the right method for making the project start date change, your schedule could incur an unwanted side effect. Microsoft Project has a few ways to change a project start date.