Tracking with a Baseline

[NewsGroup]

While reading the features of MS Project I understood that it is possible to
save upto 10 baselines for a single project.
Is it possible to track the current schedule with any of the baseline saved?
If so how to do it?
Please guide me.

Meena

 

[Rod Gill]

Yes.

View, More Views
Select the Tracking Gantt then click the copy button
Name the copy Tracking Gantt 1
Repeat for 2-10

View Tracking Gantt 1
Format, Bar Styles
Look for all occurrences of Baseline Start or Finish and replace with
Baseline1 Start or Finish.

Repeat for versions 2-10

Tools, Organizer
Copy Tracking Gantt1-10 to the Global.Mpt file so they are available for all
your projects.

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

First, to be precise, tehre is the possibility of 11 baselines (one called
baseline, the others baseline1-10)
Comparisons to the baseline are builtin: you have variance fields
(startvariance, finish variance, cost variance...) and the Tracking Gantt
view provides a graphical representation of the time differences between
current plan and baseline.
Comparisons to the other baselines ae not provided standard but the
possibilities to have them calculated is there:
- By putting the appropriate formulae in Custom Fields, you can have Project
calculate the variances;
- By creating your version of the tracking Gantt (using Format, Bar Styles)
you can show the differences graphically. For this, see FAQ 31; URL of the
FAQs in my signature.
Hope this helps