how do i compare more than 3 baselines in project?

[bneely]

I am trying to view multiple baselines against one another. i need to see
all 11 baselines on the same page for a given task.

 

[JackD]

You will have to get creative with your barstyles.
Go to the format menu, choose barstyles.
You can put bars on any one of 4 rows.
If you put the bars in the right order and use a combination of the medium
and thin bars you can get 6 lines per bar.
That would make 24 possible bars.
You might just try using the medium bars and put three on each and have 4
rows. That would give you 12.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

I'm curious - just what are you using so many baselines to accomplish?? The
baseline is a typlically used as a record of the original project plan that
you intended to work, retained so you can compare progress of actual against
plan. I think of the multiple baselines that are available as giving you an
audit trail preserving changing baselines in the even the project scope
changes once it is underway and tasks are added or remoived as a
consequence. But there's still just one actual baseline plan that
represents the structure of the project you're actually doing. What
triggers the saving of so many baselines in your project and what
information about managing the on-going project do you find you're getting
by comparing them all to one another?

 

[bneely]

We have a large staff that do work on multiple projects under one company.
We are tracking the estimated loan funding time (original baseline) as
compared to the actuall funding times (baselines 1-10). I need to see how
accuarate we are in the big picture.

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

Baselines usually don't reflect actuals. Instead they are snapshots of the
scheduled values at the moment the baseline is saved. The *schedule*
reflects actual times after you have updated progress, not the baselines.
The schedule shows your actual times while the baseline(s) shows your
planned times. The multiple baselines can provide a history showing how
your plan has evolved over time in a dynamic environment where the project's
scope is changing but they don't show actuals for different parts of the
project. If each loan is a separate subproject, baseline 1 doesn't hold
information about Loan 1 while baseline 2 holds info about Loan 2, etc .
Rather, Baseline 1 holds a record of how long we thought it would take to
fund ALL of the loans in the pipleine when we looked at the estimates on
April 1st, Baseline 2 holds the information about all the same loans when we
looked at the estimates on May 1st, Baseline 2 the same set of loans as our
estimates stood when we looked at the schedule on June 1st, and so forth.
Be careful that you don't mislead yourself in your creative use of them.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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