Integrated Project Management

Milestones and Project Reviews

Milestone project review meetings are points where the team and other stakeholders briefly reconvene. A milestone meeting is scheduled at a point where the project plan has progressed and some of the tasks have been completed (see Figure 12-5). The attendees review the project's success and risk factor utilization. In addition, they use the opportunity to keep downstream task leaders in touch with the project. They do not, however, critique individual performances, nor do they micro manage. Milestone and review meetings should never bring about any surprises or replanning. Milestones celebrate success. The project manager and the individual team members handle the other factors offline, before the milestone meetings. ...