A timeline represents an area of activity within a project
that typically has its own schedule, deliverables, teams, and process.
For example, a project with both new product release development and
current product maintenance might define these two efforts in separate
timelines because they have different delivery schedules, teams, and
processes. Project intervals or phases are defined within a timeline
and expressed as a hierarchy of iterations.
You can designate one of your timelines as the project timeline.
All of the predefined process templates specify a project timeline.
The project timeline defines the project area start and end dates
along with the iteration breakdown of those dates. The project timeline
differs from your other timelines in the following ways:
- The project timeline iterations apply to the project area. This
means that if the project timeline process is customized for the current
iteration, that customized process affects any artifacts associated
with the project area.
- All team areas that do not have an explicit custom timeline set
are governed by the process of the project timeline.