Sumit --
In Project Server 2003, the Project Server administrator can clear the Save
Baseline permission for members of the Project Managers group, which will
not allow any project manager to save a baseline ever. This feature is
useful in an organization in which the PMO is responsible for baselining
each approved project and in which the organization does not allow projects
to be rebaselined. If your organization does not have a PMO or an
individual who is responsible for overseeing the portfolio of projects, then
I would not recommend using this option.
Instead, it sounds like you have a trust issue in your organization in which
project managers fear showing too much slippage in their projects,
therefore, they rebaseline their projects to hide the slippage. Because of
this, I believe you should address the rebaselining problem as a
training/performance issue. Ultimately, the trust issue cannot be addressed
by you, however. This must be addressed by someone who has management
authority over all of the project managers. And trust is earned; it is not
automatically granted.
Just a couple of thoughts. Perhaps the others will have some ideas for you,
too. Hope this helps.
sumit said:
I made a schedule indicator which would display delay as a % of its
baseline duration. This indicator is then published at the SPS webpart,
available to the executives. The problem here is that in a fear of getting
into the eyes of executives, the project managers might just republish the
project with new baselines to convert all lights to green.
Is there a way to prevent PMs from changing the baseline or any other
secure way to arrive at delay indicators which cannot be rigged by the PMs?
