Measure project management performance from two perspectives.

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Blake 20

Is there any way to signify/note when the plan itself has been
updated/changed (without baselining of the projects)?

Objective:
Need to have a way to measure project management performance from two
perspectives.

The external perspective from the client/cutomer is related to any changes
that occur to the "finish date".
The internal perspective from a Project Office would be towards changes in
the plan that may impact resource allocation.
 
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Anybody

BlakeK --

You can probably address your need through the use of methodologies and
processes. Prior to beginning the actual work on any progress, the PM
should make sure that he/she has baselined the entire project to capture the
original state of the plan. When project execution begins, your methodology
could be something like this:

When a PM adds one or more new tasks to the project, he/she should baseline
ONLY the new tasks and should not roll up the baseline values to any summary
tasks. Doing so will allow a baseline to be captured for the new tasks, but
will still show the new tasks as variance to the project.

When a PM adds one or more new tasks to the project, he/she should also add
a Note to each new task indicated the date it was added, the reason it was
added, and any other information relevant to the new task (including who
made the change request, even if the client made the request). In addition,
he/she could even format the tasks or Gantt bars in a different color to
indicate they were additional tasks after the project was baselined. This
tasks will be easy to spot in the project, therefore.

Just some thoughts. Hope this helps.
 
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