On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:27:01 -0700, Sammi Girl Sammi
wrote:

When creating flowchart, each shape has a purpose or a meaning. What about
timelines? What do each shape mean? Are there standards? Any "official"
answers?

Do you mean the different types of timeline and milestone? I don't think they have any
meaning, just use whichever looks best to you.

You could use the milestone shapes, for things like:
milestones that have passed early (yeah, I know, don't bother with this one)
milestones that have passed on time
milestones that have passed late
milestones *you* need to meet
milestones the project needs to meet
milestones that the customer wants (but ain't gonna happen! ;-)

You can change the milestone type from the right-click menu.


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