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Product Management vocabulary · Roadmaps & Planning

Milestone

Meaning in product management, with examples

/ˈmaɪlstoʊn/nounCore term

In product management, milestone means: An important point or event in a plan, such as the end of a beta or a feature being ready for launch, used to check progress.

In Turkish: kilometre taşı, ara hedef

How it is used

Milestones have no duration; they mark that something is done. Teams set, reach, hit and miss milestones. On product roadmaps they help stakeholders see progress without promising a date for every detail.

Example sentences

  1. The next milestone is the private beta with ten customers in June.

  2. We hit every milestone except the data migration.

Common collocations

  • reach a milestone
  • hit a milestone
  • key milestone
  • miss a milestone
  • roadmapA high-level plan that shows what a product team intends to work on over the coming months or quarters, and why, without detailing every task.
  • timelineThe planned order and dates of the main steps of a piece of work, from the start to the launch.
  • dependencyA piece of work that cannot start or finish until something else, often owned by another team or company, is done first.
  • betaA test period, or a test version, in which a product or feature is released to a limited group of real users before the full launch.
  • launchThe moment a new product or feature is made available to users, together with the marketing, sales and support activities planned around it.

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