deadline vs. Baseline finish

[mbern]

I was wondering what the diffrence was between using "deadline" and
baselining. I mostly have to track if we are on schedule and where we fell
off schedule.

Thanks

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

Baseline is the plan as it was at the taime you decided to take a snapshot.
Deadlines is what is imposed upon you "Do or Die"
HTH

 

[davegb]

I was wondering what the diffrence was between using "deadline" and
baselining. I mostly have to track if we are on schedule and where we fell
off schedule.

Thanks

A deadline is an planned/intended finish date for the entire project
or a major portion thereof. Baselining is the way you capture your
original project, dates, work, costs, etc to compare to your active
plan as things progress and change. You should rarely enter baseline
values manually. They are created en masse when you do a Tools,
Tracking, Save Baseline. And projects should rarely be -re-Baselined.
Usually after a major scope change or a major schedule reconciliation
with agreement between all major stakeholders.

So the answer to your question is that you need the Baseline to know
"if we are on schedule and where we fell off schedule", but not by
actually entering dates. The Deadlines are used to set a planned end
date to major milestones and the intended Project finish.

Hope this helps in your world.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

When you have your schedule ready to go, set a baseline. That will give you
the information for each task to see where you went off track.
Use a deadline to get warning about how you are progressing. I would
recommend that you have some contingency in the deadline.

The deadline tells you if you are forecasting to be on track. The baseline
is necessary to see where you may have made up or lost time.

-Jack Dahlgren