Project Milestones

Create good project milestones with bite-sized tasks and celebrate them routinely to create high-performance teams. ... Via Tom Peters: http://bit.ly/alY5fC

Project Cancellations

Good stewardship of projects will place stage gates and hurdles into the delivery process, which offers companies an opportunity to reevaluate further investment given current conditions and the strategic outlook. However, here's some tips for reading the situation ahead of stage-gates. ...

... "It's a normal and natural part of the project management process to have a few go/no-go points in the plan or to have milestones that must be met for the project to be allowed to continue. " ...

Via TechRepublic: Signs that your project is about to be cut