With this MTA demo you can practice using the (visualization) tool MTA - milestone trend analysis.
It works like this:
Upon loading this page, you see a table
Below the table there is the resulting MTA diagram.
Please note that, in the example below, we interpret all "dates" in days of project run time.
For example, project start date is day 1,
and the planned date of milestone "Module 1" is day 43 of the project.
(Similarly, we could interpret those "dates", for example, in weeks of
project run time. Then, the planned date of milestone "Module 1" would
be week 43.)
How to read the example, below:
Project duration is planned to be 85 days and there are 5 milestones. We have bi-weekly project status meetings,
the first one on day 1, at project start. Then, we planned to hold another 6 status meetings,
including the last one for milestone "System complete".
So far, status meetings #1 (on day 15), #2 (on day 29) and #3 (on day 43) happened already.
We can recognize this trend in the MTA diagram.
You can use this MTA demo tool and experiment with it, changing the given data below or entering your own examples of up to five milestones, their planned dates, the reporting dates and the actual milestone dates as they are reported during implementation of the project.
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