Re: Milestones

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Sure, no argument. There remains however the practical and legitimate
question of *how much progress have we made toward achieving* our
milestones and reporting on the answer to that question. Such as, how
far are we toward delivering that program? How many joules have we
put into the ice block toward making it cross the phase boundary? How
far have I come on my climb to the mountaintop?

Preserving semantic purity isn't a terribly good reason for diving into
VBA when using trivially simple existing UI functionality will work.
Maybe that's why that evil checkbox was put there in the first place.
And especially since summaries ideally already correspond to
deliverables, you have a really easy means of reporting on progress
toward deliverables milestones. Maybe they should relabel the checkbox
"mark as a deliverable."

Anyway, I do appreciate the discussion, and I'm eager to hear
suggestions about simple ways to report on progress toward milestones.


Thanks,

Connie

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