Missing Hours

[Cris]

Good morning.

We are using MS Project 2002 to schedule our projects. And
we have found a very big problem...

For example:

We have a task like this:
Baseline Work: 99 h
Actual Work: 114 h
Remaining Work : 0 h

Today, we want to change the baseline, adding one hour. So
we are supposed to change the Work to 100 h, and then to
save the baseline. But if we do that, MS Project
automatically changes de Actual Work to 100 h:
Baseline Work: 100 h
Actual Work: 100 h
Remaining Work : 0 h

So we have lost 14 h!!!

Do you know the correct way to change the baseline without
loosing our Actual Work?

Thanks

 

[JIll B]

You probably don't want to know the answer to this. To manually edit
baseline data, you would have to update a lot of fields. I don't know if
this is all of them, but for each task, you would have to edit:
- All of the Task Baseline fields (Baseline Duration, Baseline Start,
Baseline Finish, Baseline Cost, Baseline Work)
- The 4 Resource Baseline fields (Baseline Start, Baseline Finish, Baseline
Cost, Baseline Work). Note: These are different than the Timescaled values.
- The timescaled Baseline Cost and Baseline Work fields for the resource, in
the resource usage view, by the smallest timescale for the schedule. Many
calculations, such as % Work Complete and Earned Value fields depend on this
timescaled data.
- The EV fields for the Task, resources on the task, and assignments in the
task. (there are too many to list here)
- Any other fields where the calculation uses any baseline data.

FYI #1: Changing the resource's timescaled "baseline work" and "baseline
cost" data, will not update the Resource's "Baseline Work" or "Baseline
Cost" values.
FYI #2: Changing the resource's timescaled "baseline work" and "baseline
cost" data, will not update the Task's "Baseline Work" or "Baseline Cost"
values.

 

[Cris]

Hi.

We had already noticed that changing manually the
baselines without saving baseline won't work as we
expected.
But we were hoping there was a way to change it easily!
If we update the baseline, our real data (actual work, for
example) will be lost. But if we don't save baseline, all
related fields won't be recalculated.
Isn't it crazy?

Thank you very much,

Cris