Website Redesign Milestone Plan
This is a practical guide to building a milestone plan for a website redesign project — the key checkpoints and target dates that mark progress, adapted to the realities of redesigning an existing website.
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 a website redesign project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Website Redesign project
Website Redesign projects live or die on redesigning an existing website. 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 website redesign projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Milestone list
- Target dates
- Acceptance criteria
- Dependencies
Website Redesign-specific considerations
Tailor the milestone plan to the risks that most often derail website redesign projects:
- Scope creep
- Content migration
- SEO preservation
Example
On a real website redesign project, the milestone plan would be shaped by redesigning an existing website. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — scope creep, content migration, SEO preservation — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.