I have added another task since I performed the original
baseline. As part of scope management, I was approved the
budget and time for performing another task, hence, I
would translate that to being able to add a task in the
plan and baseline that task. If I didn't get the
approval, I wouldn't have baselined it because it should
be something that I just have to manage. So my new
approved amount should be what I'm able to check my
progress against. Somewhere, it seems to be storing a
value from the original baseline but the extract doesn't
show where the value is coming from. The summary is
making up it's own number despite the detailed numbers
underneath the summary.
I tried two scenarios - baseline the task alone and then
baseline the task and it's summary level. If I baseline
the task alone, it seems to work, however, I will always
be behind schedule or over budget for additional scope
that has been approved. If I baseline the task and it's
summary level, it appears to retain some prior value in
the baseline cost (and BCWS) and therefore, it does not
summarize properly. I tried baselining the task, it's
summary level and the project level summary to get
everything to tie together and that doesn't work. It
doesn't clear out the values from the earlier version -
and you also lose your baseline to the actual values.
This is very frustrating because I can't penalize my
project managers for approved scope increases. Yet
baselining a task only makes it look like they are way off
base - way over budget and the BCWS, BCWP and SV will not
show the progress. I also can't ask them to spend 20
hours a week recalculating manually all of the baseline
fields in Project.
Any recommendations on how to manage approved budget
changes and accurately track progress and cost to the
revised plan? I can't rebaseline the entire plan because
I could truly be off target. I don't think it's feasible
to create a new plan for new scope increases. It just
seems like we have to live with being behind schedule or
over budget for approved items.
