Milestones Overview
A Clarizen milestone has two usages:
- a hammock of tasks
- a significant event (empty milestone)
A milestone is typically used as a container of tasks to be completed in order to achieve the milestone’s goals (in terms of content and dates). This methodology enables an instant understanding of every milestone’s status, especially since it is reflected in the project's work items.
You can refer to a milestone as a significant phase or hammock in your project plan, as this needs to be highlighted in the high level overview of your project. By setting a milestone's due date you can make it behave like a date-driven milestone rather than being fully scheduled by its planned work effort.
- On Roadmaps, icons fill up with a grey color to indicate the percent completion, schedule status and the milestone progress.
Milestone Roadmap schedule status examples: 
— Milestone is 4% complete
— Milestone is 65% complete
Border Colors
The below images represent the potential roadmap icons:
— The grey border around this milestone icon indicates that this work item's status is 'Not Active'.
— The green border around this icon milestone indicates that this work item's status is 'On Track'.
— The orange border around this icon milestone indicates that this work item's status is 'At Risk'.
— The red border around this milestone icon indicates that this work item's status is 'Off Track'.
Other Indicators
— The down arrow on the top left of this milestone icon indicates that this work item is impacted by other work items.
— The up arrow on the top left of this milestone icon indicates that this work item impacts other work items.
— The up and down arrows on the top left of this milestone icon indicate that this work item both impacts and is
impacted by other work items.
— The blue arrow on the bottom left of this milestone icon indicates that this work item is a shortcut.
Creating a Milestone
Creating a Milestone
This page describes creating a milestone in Clarizen and includes the following sections :
- About Creating Milestones
- Creating a Milestone via the Navigation Panel
- Creating a Milestone from the Roadmap
- Creating Milestones from Modules
For the following example, a new milestone is created from the Navigation Panel.
Creating a Milestone via the Navigation Panel
- Click
The Navigation Panel opens. - Click New and select Milestone .
The Add New Milestone pop-up window or in-line editor opens.
and 
options, whereas pop-up windows are not. Layouts for defining new items can be configured to display information and/or fields as pop-up windows or as inline editors by your organization's Admin user, via Layout Settings.
Figure 1: Add New Milestone
- Click the link below the Name field to change the parent .
- In the Template field, click
to select a template. (Optional)
configuration and milestones's overall architecture and strategy for achieving the milestone's deliverables.
The template may include user assignment.
- In the Manager field, click
to select a manager (other than the default manager). - Click the Start Date field to define the milestone's start date .
- Click the Committed Date field to define the committed date.
- Click
Creating a Milestone From The Roadmap
- Navigate to the project Item Detail view's Roadmap .
- Click
located on the ribbon.
The Add Milestone dialog opens.
Figure 2: Add Milestone
- Click and hold to choose the required milestone and 'drag and drop' it to the desired location on the Roadmap.
The New Milestone properties dialog opens.
Figure 3: New Milestone Properties Dialog
- Enter a milestone name and define the Due Date.
- Click
The new milestone is created and appears on the roadmap in the selected location.
Creating Milestones From Modules
Creating a Milestone From the Milestone Module
- Access the Milestone module.
- Click
located on the ribbon.
The Add New Milestone window opens. - Follow Steps 3 through 8 of Creating a Milestone via the Navigation Panel.
Creating a Milestone From the Work Items Module
- Access the Work Items module.
- Click
located on the ribbon. - Select Milestone from the drop-down menu.
The Add New Milestone window opens.
- Follow Steps 3 through 8 of Creating a Milestone via the Navigation Panel.
Using Templates
Using Templates
This page describes creating new milestones using templates and includes the following sections :
Using templates to provide the basic framework for creating new milestones from a previously used milestone saved in the
system saves you time. All fields and data are maintained when a milestone is saved as a template.
When creating the new milestone, the template properties define the configuration of the milestone's overall architecture
and strategy for achieving the milestone's deliverables. The template may include user assignment.
Creating a New Milestone Using a Template
- Follow Steps 1 through 4 of 'Creating a Milestone via the Navigation Panel'.
Figure 1: Add New Milestone Pop-up Window
and 
options, whereas pop-up windows are not. Layouts for defining new items can be configured to display information and/or fields as pop-up windows or as inline editors by your organization's Admin user, via Layout Settings.
- In the Template field, click
The Select Template find window opens listing the milestone templates.
- Sort columns , define column sets and/or define search filters.
Figure 3: Filters
- Select a template.
- Uncheck the item type properties not to be included in the new milestone.
- Click
The Add New Milestone pop-up window or in-line editor loads with the selected template properties .
Figure 4: Add New Template Milestone
- Click
The new milestone opens in Item Detail view.
Milestone Module
View Navigator
View Navigator
Clarizen's View Navigator ' out-of-the-box' default view options vary from module to module. The figure below shows the Milestone module out-of-the-box' default view options.
Figure 1 : Milestone Module View M anager
Team Panel
Team Panel
The Milestones module supports including Clarizen's Team Panel to the view. The addition of the Team Panel creates a team-centric view to better assist with team collaboration on all deliverables.
Figure 1: Milestone 'Team-centric' Basic View
Grid
Grid
The grid is Clarizen's standard data table display for viewing, managing and editing data and items in most modules .
A grid display is one of three display type options used to configure several of the out-of-the-box view options available in the View Navigator for most modules.
Using the Time Range Filter enables filtering the grid to show items and events occurring during the actual period/date(s) defined.
Clicking the cog icon, located above the ribbon enables managing grid column sets which can then be further filtered and sorted.
Figure 1: Milestone Grid
Searching and Filtering
Searching and Filtering
The Milestones module can be searched and filtered for items and data using the Contextual Search and the Time Range Filter.
Note: Clarizen can be searched globally using the Global Search tool .
Ribbon
Ribbon
The Milestones module ribbon , located under the masthead (at the top-left) provides controls for performing actions on selected items.
Figure 1: Milestones Module Ribbon
Relations Panel
Relations Panel
The Milestones module grid displays include t he Relations Panel , located on the right-hand side of the screen.
The Relations Panel displays any related items, such as assigned resources , files , and discussions , etc.) of a selected item type in the grid, as well as cases including bugs, issues and requests, and enables working with the related items while staying in context of your original view.
The panel is blank when multiple items are selected.
Properties Card
Properties Card
A Milestone's properties card can be accessed from the Milestones module by selecting the item in the grid, and clicking More info located in the Relations Panel .
View Navigator
View Navigator
Clarizen's View Navigator 'out-of-the-box' default view options vary from module to module. The figure below shows the Milestone Item Detail out-of-the-box' default view options.
Figure 1 : Milestone Detail View M anager
Layout
Layout
A milestone Item Detail view layout is comprised of the milestone's Properties Card located at the top of the page and panels containing any related items, such as resources, followers, discussion, emails and more. Specific information is displayed in the customizable panels that can be arranged in the view to suit your needs. Some items use special panels.
You can work with items in each panel directly without losing context. Milestone Detail view panels within the view can be laid out in one or two columns on the screen, and are fully customizable by your organization's Clarizen Admin user.
You can further customize the view for private use at the user level .
Figure 1: Milestone Item Detail View Layout
Work Plan (WBS)
Work Plan (WBS)
Work Plan panels provide a clear, easy to follow view of work items broken down into sub-items in a tree format.
In project management terminology, this is a WBS, a work breakdown structure.
Discussions
Discussions
Discussions on a specific milestone in Clarizen can be initiated, shared and replied to in order to facilitate work item team or group collaboration.
Discussions centered on a specific milestone appear in the Milestone module Relations Panel and dedicated panels in milestone Item Detail views.
How can we create Milestones within Programs?
Is there a reason why I cannot create milestone within the structure of my WBS? Seems like milestones can only be at the project level and not indented within the structure of the WBS. Is this an implementation issue i.e. each company decide the level where milestones can be created?