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Milestones

A milestone is a named goal, usually with a deadline: Soft launch, Filing date, Season premiere. Items are assigned to it; the milestone gives scattered items a shared "why and when".

Working with milestones

Create milestones in the space's settings — a name, an optional deadline, an optional description. Then connect work to them:

• Assign from the item — pick a milestone in the detail panel.
• Group the board by milestone — columns become milestones, and dragging an item into a column assigns it. A useful nicety: dropping an item into a milestone column nudges its due date to the milestone's deadline if it had none (or had a later one) — it never moves a date later.
• See them on the timeline — each milestone is a diamond in the header with a guideline dropping through the items, so "what must land before the diamond" is a visual fact.

What milestones are not

There's no milestone percent-complete gauge, no RAG status, no roll-up report. A board grouped by milestone already shows you what's done and what's left, item by item, with names on it. We'd rather show you the work than a number summarizing it.

One item belongs to at most one milestone. If items seem to need several, that's usually a label wanting to exist.