Adding to Baseline data

[prashanth.sharangapani]

Dear MPP users,

I need one help. I use project 2003.

I have one schedule already baselined. However, at the time of
baselining, I had forgot to update the resources charge rate and it
remained as $0. Now I have begun tracking the schedule, but SPI never
shows up because BCWP is $0. I can go and re-baseline, but that will
over write the previous baseline data (my first week of tracking
indicates that we are doing very well on CPI, if I re-baseline, I will
lose that!).

Any idea on how to get around this?

Thanks for the help.

Prashanth
Bangalore, India

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

Prashanth,

If you have an earlier version of the project before you entered status, you
could use that to baseline your schedule and then redo your updates.

Or you could remove your updates from the existing schedule (make it all
match baseline) then set your resource rates and rebaseline. Then update
again.

Those would be the only two ways to do it that I know of.

-Jack Dahlgren

 

[John]

Dear MPP users,

I need one help. I use project 2003.

I have one schedule already baselined. However, at the time of
baselining, I had forgot to update the resources charge rate and it
remained as $0. Now I have begun tracking the schedule, but SPI never
shows up because BCWP is $0. I can go and re-baseline, but that will
over write the previous baseline data (my first week of tracking
indicates that we are doing very well on CPI, if I re-baseline, I will
lose that!).

Any idea on how to get around this?

Thanks for the help.

Prashanth
Bangalore, India

Prashanth,
Let me offer a couple more options in addition to what Jack suggested.

You didn't specify exactly which baseline data you are concerned about
losing. Surely you want to "lose" the cost baseline because that is
incorrect anyway. If I assume you want to preserve basic baseline fields
such as start, finish, and duration, you could copy those existing
baseline fields into spare fields (e.g. Start1, Finish1, Duration1). Fix
your resource pay rate and re-baseline. Then copy the baseline data you
saved in the spare fields back to their original baseline fields.

This may be a bit overkill for a one-time problem but the above process
or something very similar could be automated with VBA.

John
Project MVP

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

John,

Maybe I'm not reading it right, but for Earned value he will need timescaled
cost data. If the dates of tasks are different and actual work varied from
the baseline (which apparently it has) then there is no way to go back just
by copying start and finish.

-Jack

 

[John]

John,

Maybe I'm not reading it right, but for Earned value he will need timescaled
cost data. If the dates of tasks are different and actual work varied from
the baseline (which apparently it has) then there is no way to go back just
by copying start and finish.

-Jack

Jack,
No, you are reading it right. It is me who didn't give it enough
thought. I was concentrating on the static baseline data issue and
didn't take into account the timescaled data problem.

My bad.

John
Project MVP