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Manage Large Projects

 

Milestones Professional provides several tools for managing large projects or multiple projects.

Master schedules

 

Find and replace   Filter

Symbol links

 

Sort   Outline

Hyperlinks

 

     

Master Schedules: Merge schedules for a top-level view        

Master schedules make it easy to merge together coworkers’ schedules. In this example, the Design and Manufacture schedules are maintained by two line managers.  When upper management wants to see the latest schedule, the master schedule instantly gets the most up-to-date information from the sub-schedules. (Schedule changes made to the master schedule do not appear in the sub-schedules.) Learn more.


Symbol links: Control dates on other schedules   

   

Symbol linking lets you base the date of a symbol in one schedule on the date of a symbol in another schedule or the same schedule.

 

In this example, management monitors the Main Schedule to see the start and end date progress of several projects, including Web Site Project.

A line manager maintains the detailed Web Site Project schedule. When Task1's start date or Task 4's end date changes, those dates in the Main Schedule change accordingly because they are linked.

Learn more.

 

Hyperlinks: Jump from any symbol to another file    

   

Any symbol on your schedule can have hyperlinks to other detailed schedules, documents, or web pages. Once linked, you can activate the objects with a click of your mouse. Learn more.

Hyperlinks can be used in conjunction with Milestones Professional’s Internet Publishing Wizard. Hyperlinked Milestones Professional schedules and web pages will be published when a schedule is published, complete with “hotspots” from the schedule symbols to the linked schedules and web pages.


Find and replace text   

  

Use Find/Replace to quickly make detailed text changes to large schedules. Use Find/Replace for column text, free form text, symbol notes, and symbol text.

In the example below, Sue is taking over all of Kevin’s tasks. Using Find “Kevin” and Replace with “Sue,” the large schedule is quickly modified.  Your last Find/Replace is saved and can be accessed with Repeat Last Find.


Sort tasks by date, text, and more    

  

Milestones Professional supports sorting by a variety of fields, including start date, end date, currency values, text, and more. Save sort settings for easy access to repetitive sorts.

 

In this example, when sorting the WHO column alphabetically by text, it’s easy to see that Mike is overloaded during April, while Sue could take on more assignments. Learn more.

 


Filter tasks by date, text and more    

 

 

 

With large schedules, you may want to see only a subset of the project steps. Milestones Professional’s Filter Task Lines feature allows you to “sift out” task lines by types of symbols and connectors, date range, text, numbers and more.

In this example, tasks with a budget greater that $2,500 are filtered and displayed in the second schedule, below. And, it’s easy to revert to the original, unfiltered schedule.

Learn more.

 

Summarize multiple projects in one schedule   

   

Maintain dozens of projects within one Milestones schedule by creating a hierarchy of projects, tasks, and subtasks (down to 20 subtask levels).

 

This outlined schedule can be collapsed to the project level for a summary view or expanded to the task level for a detailed view. Additional outlining options are available, including shading by outline level, flexible summary-bar display and more.

 

In the example below, a single schedule with multiple projects is expanded to show all projects and their subtasks. The next schedule displays only the project level and the subtasks are hidden.    Learn more.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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