MTA Demo (Practice Milestone Trend Analysis)

You can use this MTA demo to practice how to apply the tool milestone trend analysis (MTA).

I encourage you to experiment with it, changing the given data below or entering your examples of up to five milestones, their planned dates, the reporting dates, and the actual milestone dates as they are reported during the implementation phase of the project.

It works like this:

Upon loading this page, you see a table

• with the milestone names (first column),
• their planned dates (second column),
• the serial numbers of the dates of reporting (first row),
• the dates of reporting (second row), and
• the actual dates as they are reported at each date of reporting (all the remaining input cells, in the violet table area).

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, the 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.)