Defining The Project's Goal

What would also be nice is a way to define an end point to a task, event 
or message item such that we all know when it has reached its end.  
Along with creating start and stop times, what is needed isa way to 
manage the goals (aka milestones) of the project.

We can sort of do that now in the notes field but there is no 
accountability associated with that.  I would rather have the ability to 
produce milestones in addition to my "notes" or text field associated 
with a task or event.

This would permit a percentage completion calculation based upon a 
mathematical count of the real work items (milestones) within the goal, 
not that mythical percentage completed beast that Outlook has for its 
task management.  For example, if completion means a) draft the letter, 
b) send it to the supplier c) get price d) arrange meeting with supplier 
e) issue purchase order f) received and installed = completed.  This 
collection of project tasks and events has 6 core milestones.  There may 
be many more items added by the team  but as long as these milestones 
are met, we all collectively know how far along we are.
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