How to create the Baseline

[Alex]

I was wondering how I can enter information into the Baseline. I want to
create my own Baseline costs for a project? How is this done?

 

[Dave]

I was wondering how I can enter information into the Baseline. I want to
create my own Baseline costs for a project? How is this done?

From the menu: Tools/Tracking/Save Baseline.

Doing that means that the application saves the planned start and end
dates for each of the tasks together with their associated costs.

You might find it useful to save it as Baseline1 at the same time in
case for any reason you have to create another baseline later on as this
will ensure that the original is preserved.

 

[davegb]

I was wondering how I can enter information into the Baseline. I want to
create my own Baseline costs for a project? How is this done?

Your Baseline costs are created when you create your schedule and
enter the appropriate costs for resources, tasks, etc. The software
will not allow you to just go in and override what you've put in for
these costs. You can add to them by putting in additional costs in
some of the available cost fields, like "Fixed Costs" on tasks, but
you can't, for example, put in a Resource Cost of $10/h on a task with
40 hrs of work and then tell the software you want the baseline labor
on that task to be $500 instead of $400.

However, you could use calculated fields to apply say, a burden factor
to calculate and accumulate a burdened cost for that labor and show
that in a report. There's a lot you can do to get different costs out
of Project, but you can't tell it one thing and ask it to report
something entirely different for that same cost, AFAIK.

Hope this helps in your world.