Milestones and Dependencies
"Milestones are tasks which have no duration but which have a scheduled due date."
But they do have a duration.
If I have tasks that have a dependency on an external event that is marked as a milestone (e.g. cannot start until the milestone has passed and must start as soon as the milestone has passed), Wrike treats the milestone as having a duration of 8 hours and the tasks are pushed to the next day on the Gantt chart.
How can I get around that?
I have resorted to using timed tasks with a very short duration (15m) but that's not really an accurate representation of what's happening. The external event isn't a task for us, it's a gate and trigger for work.
Hi Glen, thanks for posting 🙂 I think that Lead time functionality can help you here. You can create a Finish to Start dependency between your milestone and the next task in the chain so that it starts at the same date as the milestone task, please see the screenshot:
Please let me know if that's what you were looking for 👍
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Thanks. This is what I was looking for, but I'm not sure I've fully wrapped my head around it yet.
I think I understand lag time.
I'm having a harder time wrapping my head around lead time.
Is that right?
Glen, your lag time example is correct, as for the lead time example, lead time designates that the next task in the chain can start N days before its predecessor has finished, for example: you have your external event as a milestone (a one-day milestone) and it's due 29.03 and a task that should start on the same date, you can set the dependency for the task as Milestone FS - 1d. Hope this helps 🙂
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Thank you.