Milestone

With the help of Milestones you can group activities that belong together because they relate to the same intermediate result/deliverable (which is commonly called a milestone). For example, you might want to assign all activities that are related to the first release candidate of a software product to Milestone RC1, or you might want to assign all activities related to passing a chemistry field exam to Milestone Field Exam Chemistry:

Figure 4-4. Milestone with linked Activities

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Anatomy of a Milestone:

Name of the Category
a short Description of the Category

You can define as many Milestones as you like and you can assign the same activity to multiple Milestones if required. All the activities assigned to a Milestone are shown in the Grid Activities.

If an activity is assigned to multiple Milestones, this linked activity will show up multiple times in the Grid Activities of the respective activity tracker, once for every Milestone it is assigned to; this is useful if you filter activities based on Milestone assignments..