How do I have a picture of a project which includes its deleted ta

[MP]

If I create a baseline of a project and after that delete a task of the same
project, the task also disappears from the baseline. From the moment this
happens I'm not able anymore to track that task or even know that it existed
on my project!!

Do you have any suggestion on how to overcame this problem?

I'm using PS2007

Thanks,
MP

 

[Sander]

Well to kick in an open door: do not delete any tasks that you want to track.
So the question is to you: why need to delete a task (especially one that is
baselined).

if work is done --> mark it finished
if work is obsolete --> change remaining work to zero

IF you have any other reason to delete a task, just explain and we will see
what to do.

Regards,
Sander

 

[Gilgamesh]

Well to kick in an open door: do not delete any tasks that you want to
track.
So the question is to you: why need to delete a task (especially one that
is
baselined).

if work is done --> mark it finished
if work is obsolete --> change remaining work to zero

IF you have any other reason to delete a task, just explain and we will
see
what to do.

I am in a similar situation needing to know this. If I am managing a
schedule I would do as you suggest.
In my circumstances I have various other PMs who have been reporting
milestones with differing baseline dates and no approved changes (in
otherwords I cant trust them to keep the baseline intact).
What I have done is written a VBA macro that export the baseline data to an
excel file which I keep separately.
On a regular basis I run another macro that reads the excel file and
compares it to the schedule so that I can get a report of the baseline
discrepancies. Part of this comparison checks the uniqueids recorded in the
excel file to those in the schedule and if there is no matching schedule
task than this is included in the report.

 

[Sander]

There is also the possibilty to revoke the rights to save protected
baseline's (baselines 0 to 5) from the PM's. This way, they cannot modify
the baseline values. But this means someone else should be saving baselines
for them.
Only thing that is not waterproof in this context, is the deletion of for
example milestones. If they recreate these, the new milestone would not have
any baseline information and thus 'stand out from the crowd'. You still lose
the baseline informatin on the original milestone.

 

[MP]

That is exactly my problem Gilgamesh. Even if PM's cannot modified baseline
0, they can delete tasks on projects and I wont be able to know that on the
tracking process...