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Setting Milestones

Warren Sturt
Warren Sturt ✭
edited 12/09/19 in Archived 2016 Posts

I want to set the end date, and have my project manager set the duration which will in turn change the start date. Is this possible?

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  • Atus Bartal
    Atus Bartal ✭✭✭✭✭✭
    edited 08/31/16

    Warren,

     

    Yes, just use Start-to-Finish predecessors with a milestone, and plan backwards (it's called "hard deadline" planning, see Help reference here - and search for "hard deadline").

     

    It will look like this: 

     

    1. Set a milestone with the deadline, then in the PREVIOUS row put the number of the deadline row as SF predeccessor:

     

    I hope this helps. 

     

    Atus

     

     

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