12 Milestones and timeframes

The following link (also provided earlier) contain information that will help you develop milestones. https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/milestones-project-management

At the proposal stage a timeframe is required which is less detailed than a complete schedule. Creating a complete schedule is, in itself, time consuming and therefore costly and given that your proposal may be rejected, it is wasteful to develop one at this stage of the project management process.

However, it is worth considering what is going to be included in your schedule, because if you have an idea in the back of your mind what is going to happen when then your indicative time frame is more likely to be accurate.

There is no one right answer to the question of exactly how much detail should be in a project proposal, except to say, it should be reasonably realistic (accurate) and contain enough information to enable authority to make a decision about whether the project should be selected or not.

At this point it is probably worth knowing a little bit about scheduling, so you can choose how much detail you need to put into your timeframe.

Scheduling involves is outlined in the following blog:

https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/create-project-management-schedule