Baselining the Ongoing Project

[Joseph Peter]

Hi All,

I am Joseph Peter. One of the issues I ran into is related to the Baselining
of a current project. Few uncertanities regarding the Cost & Schedule
prevented me from Baselining the project at the begining. Now the project is
over 3 months. How can Cost and effort changes have undergone 2 revisions in
2 mpp files. How can I compare the current mpp with those in the previous
ones? I experimented with baseline.

I did one experiment by taking the mpp file offline.
I saved a local copy of the mpp file, deleted all the tasks, copied the
tasks from revision 1 mpp, saved the baseline. I repeated the same for
revision 2. Then I copied back the current tasks with actuals and saved the
baseline.

It didn't help me.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks in advance,
Joseph Peter

 

[Rod Gill]

Hi Joseph Peter,

It's a bit late for this schedule unless you manually copy paste values from
an old copy of the schedule or manually enter them. For future projects I
always save to Baselin1 when I first agree a schedule. During the following
phases/iterations I save to Baseline2, 3 etc.

I always save the original baseline as I often save it before updating.
Especially with time critical projects, being able to see where you are now
compared to last week is great for spotting trends in progress.

 

[Marcus Pierce]

For what it's worth: We save a "Target" version at the same time we save the
first baseline (after a suggestion from Dale), and then we can use the
Compare Project Versions tool. We subsequently save baselines at each project
phase transition.

--Marcus

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Marcus --

Thanks for the kind compliment about saving a Target version immediately
after baselining, for comparison purposes after you finish a project.
Interestingly enough, I am building this very methodology into our Microsoft
Project 2007 Foundations course. Thanks again!

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Marcus --

Thanks for the kind compliment about saving a Target version immediately
after baselining, for comparison purposes after you finish a project.
Interestingly enough, I am building this very methodology into our Microsoft
Project 2007 Foundations course. Thanks again!