Simplify crazy gantt charts and accurately track key milestones. Report schedules with fast, easy and intuitive milestone visualizations.
Simplify crazy gantt charts and accurately track key milestones. Report schedules with fast, easy and intuitive milestone visualizations.
Communicate and report your project milestones, phases and key dates with a simple, intuitive tool with built in data visualization. Mastt allows you to:
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Milestones are major points or events that occur on a capital project. Milestones will generally fall within a 'phase' (e.g. Design, Planning, Construction phases) and indicate a critical point of progress when achieved on a project. Milestones and Phases together provide a standardized 'Lifecycle' and a framework for monitoring, controlling and reporting on projects, programs and portfolios.
Note: The process of accurately identifying when milestones will be achieved in the future is often completed in critical path tools such as Microsoft Project or Primavera, which provide an input to the Lifecycle.
Common challenges we see in managing milestones include:
❌ No Standardization: Project and Project Owners dont know what key milestones matter for decision making across the portfolio.
❌ Gantt Charts Not Good: No key decision maker or stakeholder wants to sift throught a gantt chart to find key dates.
❌ Poor Reporting: Milestones are reported in a basic table without context.
❌ No Connection to Spend: Milestone achievement generally comes at a cost and rarely the two are presented together.
❌ No Portfolio View: Gantt charts impossible to aggregate or combine across projects, making a simple 'What's Next?' huge effort to discover.
💡 Simple & Easy To Understand: Key dates, slippage and 'what's next?' presented clearly and visually.
💡 Interactive Charts: Monitor and report milestone performance with out of the box charts and tables.
💡 Standardized: Easily create and apply a standardized lifecycle across project portfolios for consistent reporting.
💡 Data Aggregation: Automate milestone aggregation at portfolio level for comprehensive milestone reporting.
Mastt’s user-friendly milestone management tools include:
🔷 Add Milestones: Forecast planned dates, set baselines, and record actual completion dates.
🔷 Assign Phases: Assign milestones to specific phases within the project lifecycle.
🔷 Select 'Key' Milestones: Mark critical milestones for hold points, decisions, or critical junctures.
🔷 Slip/Gain Analysis: Identify and track milestone slippage or gains against baseline dates.
🔷 Comments: Add contextual comments to milestones.
🔷 Templates: Save and apply milestone templates across multiple projects.
🔷 Charts and Visualizations: Visualize milestones at project and portfolio levels, with downloadable charts for reports.
🔷 Auto Reporting: Automatically generate schedule-related reports for seamless communication and analysis.
Top tips for managing milestones:
🟢 Keep It Simple: Only report on milestones that matter to your viewers for key decision making.
🟢 Standardize Templates: Use standardized templates for consistency.
🟢 Baseline: Add baseline dates to measure slippages or gains as the project or program progresses.
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