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Milestones Professional makes planning, organizing, communicating and tracking projects fast and easy. Designed for anyone who spends time scheduling or managing projects, Milestones Professional makes fast work of scheduling efforts. Project managers who need to put together presentation ready project schedules will find Milestones Professional to be a scheduling software product that is truly a joy to work with.
Most project management software offers an assortment of display options, but Milestones Professional’s huge built-in assortment of symbols and bars is second to none.
As many as 500 individual project milestones can be added to any task row on the schedule. They can be stand-alone project milestones or can represent project start and end dates.
Strategically place bars or symbols on single task row or use the eleven vertical levels within a task row.
Milestones Professional large array of headings allows tracking of projects by minutes, hours, days quarters and years as well as custom time spans. Features like fiscal year options, colorizing and logarithmic views provide pinpoint project tracking for top level presentation.
Add up to 20 columns that can contain text, values, built in or customized calculations, and or indicators.
Emphasize a task using symbols, or color Indicators.
Set-up 1 to 3 Datagraphs to track costs and resources. Datagraphs can be displayed as lines, bars or points.
An added Legend gives meaning to symbols, symbol-bar-symbol combinations and indicators on a schedule.
Define task symbology with customizable symbol text and symbol notes.
Use built-in Summary options to show lower-level information then rollup for top-level reporting.
Use built-in Baseline options to hold your project to its schedule.
Use built in Status features to show and track the percent complete of each task and the entire project.
Add customizable Freeform text anywhere on the schedule.
The nice thing about Milestones Professional is that it can make you a hero. That’s right. When you put the power of Milestones to work, you’ll transform Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, or even Primavera schedules into attractive, persuasive, executive-level presentation reports that get noticed. And get you noticed! And don’t worry about making changes to your schedules. When your project schedules change (which they often do!), you can choose to “refresh” the presentation schedule with the latest dates from Microsoft Project or Primavera.
In Minutes generate a one or more-page prestation report with Milestones import wizards for Microsoft Project and Primavera. The wizards offer a variety of built-in templates, a Step by Step guide for personal selection of the information to be imported then allows those imported schedule to be customized and the saved style appears in the wizards for future importing.
Swimlane and Master Schedule presentation reports are a breeze with Linking and Coded import options. These presentation reports can be built from a single file or multiple files.
The Milestones Professional file generated from Microsoft Project or Primavera can be updated using the Milestones Professional Refresh option.
Refresh will update dates, text, columns, status and more. Refresh results provides a report of updated items and an optional highlighted date change schedule view.
No need to have Microsoft Project of Primavera installed to view the information in an MPP, XER or XML file with Milestones Professional Quick View. Quick View interprets the MPP, XER and XML files information displaying it in the Milestones Professional’s format or as a text file.
Getting schedule information into Milestones Professional from just about any other Windows software package is easy. Simply copy information from another application to the Windows clipboard, and then paste into Milestones Professional.
When the spreadsheet changes, Milestones Professional Refresh feature updates the Milestones Professional schedule highlighting the changed dates.
Use a variety of Milestones Professional connectivity features to manage all aspects of large or multiple projects!
Merge two or more sub-schedules into a single master schedule to get a top-level view of multiple projects. Simply update the master schedule to see the latest sub schedule information.
Manage multiple projects through symbol linking. Base the date of a symbol on a different symbol in another schedule or the same schedule.
Any symbol or task row on the schedule can have hyperlinks to other schedules, documents or Internet web pages. Once linked, it’s possible to open the objects with a click of the mouse.
With Milestones Professional, it’s easy to instantly get the “big picture” and see how your project is progressing. Easily add stoplight indicators, percent-complete pie charts, and status symbols to any project schedule. Using these, you’ll see “at a glance” the exact status of your project. At last, you’ll be where you’ve always wanted to be. In complete control of your project!
Display a wide variety of indicator symbols using a Stoplight SmartColumn. Stoplight SmartColumns offer a quick and easy method for adding stoplights, with no setup needed.
Earned Value Management is an extremely useful project management system that combines schedule and cost performance. It was designed to help you answer the important question: “What did we get for the money we spent?”
Milestones Professional can give you the answer. Fast. You see, Milestones can add costs, calculate earned value, and present these and other important numbers in a variety of handy formats.
Produce reports showing Earned Value, Planned Value, Actual Costs, CPI, SPI, EAC, and EVMS fields using user-entered values, calculated values, imported values from MS Project, or a combination of these options.
Perform mathematical (+, -, X, /) on values which are entered into columns for tasks on the schedule. Optionally display an indicator (like a stoplight or a % complete pie) for easy insight into key project metrics.
DataGraph feature allows time period views of dollars, manhours and other values in a project management presentation schedule. Values can be graphed on individual graphs or on the same graph for easy comparison. Milestones Professional variety of DataGraph and ValueSet design elements enhances the schedules visual, for easy understanding of your project’s values.
Good news! Milestones Professional offers many ways for you to quickly and easily share your reports
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I have some folks from another large company coming to our office next week to see how we are using Milestones Professional to create the cross-project links report. The report has been well-received internally here at Alliant Energy. Am also giving a demo on the same topic at our Madison chapter of MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) in the near future. So, you might be getting more business from others in this area.
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We have a lot of example schedules on our website – see what kind of output is possible with Milestones Professional.
We also have a lot of videos and video tutorials related to Milestones Professional – we’re adding more all the time.
Check out Milestones Professional yourself – the only limit is your imagination (and 20 file saves)!