Integrated Project Management

The Reasons Behind Milestone Meetings

Milestone meetings are important. These meetings are discussion meetings about what is happening and what is projected, and they follow an agenda that is prepared and distributed by the project manager. The minutes of the meeting are kept by a designee of the project manager and are distributed to all of the team members and the project stakeholders. The milestone meeting is one tool for keeping the project's team members connected to the project. As previously noted, the team members, whose tasks do not begin for months into the future, can easily lose track of where they fit in the project. Milestone meetings and the minutes of these meetings are distributed to help keep them connected. (You should distribute ...