
Add the reporting baseline milestone tasks to the project timeline.Create the reporting baseline milestones tasks with a 0 duration, do not assign predecessors, and manually enter the baseline finish dates from the real milestones from the schedule above.Project schedule with Reporting Baseline Milestones This section should start at Level 1, so that these reporting tasks are separated from your main schedule. At the end of your project schedule, add a section for reporting milestone baseline tasks, like below.I like to enlarge the milestone fonts in the timeline and color coordinate to summary tasks, or identify payment milestones (green), etc… You can do this by selecting the text on the timeline and in the upper left corner there are font attributes to choose from.

The summary tasks are displayed in the middle of the timeline, and the milestones tasks are noted with diamonds and displayed on the outside of the timeline. You can do this by right-clicking on the task and selecting “Add to Timeline”.

Build your project schedule and make sure you have milestones defined and the tasks linked.
