Hi, I would like to Share an Idea that I Just presented to my (GTD) clients, about “Milestones”, while there are many reasons you can use this, When we have a Task that has more than 3 “Next Actions” its called a Small Project (SP) we create a Parent (as a SP placeholder) and the subs are the Next Actions,
I would recommend marking all “SP (parent) Tasks” as a Milestone to indicate to the team that this is a SP.
Small Project (now marked as Milestone) best practices
- Assign parent to the person responsible to see this SP done
- Assign subs to whoever will do them
- Move it into the “Upcoming” to review once a week. (no date unless it has a real due date)
- Don’t comment in parent only if it’s related to the SP as a whole, comment directly in the related subtask
- Don’t complete parent until all subs are complete