Intranet Rollout Milestone Plan
This is a practical guide to building a milestone plan for an intranet rollout project — the key checkpoints and target dates that mark progress, adapted to the realities of launching a company intranet or digital workplace.
What a Milestone Plan is
A milestone plan is the key checkpoints and target dates that mark progress. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Project Milestone. On an intranet rollout project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an Intranet Rollout project
Intranet Rollout projects live or die on launching a company intranet or digital workplace. A well-built milestone plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how intranet rollout projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Milestone list
- Target dates
- Acceptance criteria
- Dependencies
Intranet Rollout-specific considerations
Tailor the milestone plan to the risks that most often derail intranet rollout projects:
- Content ownership
- Adoption
- Search and information architecture
Example
On a real intranet rollout project, the milestone plan would be shaped by launching a company intranet or digital workplace. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — content ownership, adoption, search and information architecture — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.