Multiple Baselines

[% Complete vs Actual Work]

When you select the tracking gantt, what baselines show up? e.g. will it
reflect the highest number baseline that has been saved? Or does it just
reflect what is stored in the first baseline? And if we save a weekly version
of a schedule will the previous baseline(s) be lost?

Thanks!

Katie

 

[JulieS]

Hi Katie,

The tracking Gantt shows Baseline data. You may want to take a look at
the Multiple Baselines Gantt which shows Baseline, Baseline1, and
Baseline2 data.

You may also create your own custom view as needed.

The Baseline data is not overwritten unless you choose to by going to
Tools > Tracking > Save baseline and overwrite an already existing
baseline.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
Project MVP

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"% Complete vs Actual Work"

 

[Manmeet Chaudhari]

Hi
In tracking gantt view you always get to see the first baseline.
If you want to save the weekly version of schedule you can use the remaining
10 baselines.

You can create your own views like tracking gantt view to compare current
with any of 1-10 baselines.

You can also make use of multiple baseline gantt in the view-more views to
see 2 baslines being compared together


Thanks
Manmeet Chaudhari

 

[Steve House]

It's not the highest numbered baseline that shows up by default, it's the
one and only baseline. Project has 11 slots for baseline data, labeled
Baseline and then Baseline 1 through 10. As far as the Tracking Gantt chart
and all the other areas where baseline and vaiances are shown, the baseline
referenced is the one labled simply Baseline without a number. If you just
"Save Baseline" in the menu, that's the one that gets saved or overwritten.
If you want to save it into one of the vacant 1-10 slots, you need to
specifically set that as the destination.

IMHO, a given project has one and only one functional baseline that is fixed
in stone at the time the initial plan is approved and it should never be
revised or updated from that point onward. It is the sole record you have
of 'the plan we intend to work.' The only exception to that rule is when
tasks have been added or removed from the plan so as to change it into what
is essentially a new project, hence the plan has become a new plan. The
numbered baseline slots, Baselines 1-10, are to provide for the capture of
an audit trail to monitor the changes in a dynamic project that is
essentially changing direction over time with tasks being added or removed.
Variances in performance against the original plan without having tasks
added or removed should NOT trigger revised baselines since that in effect
wipes out all record of your variances - it's tantamount to saying 'No
matter how it compares to what we originally intended to do, we'll just
pretend that whatever happened was what we really wanted to happen.'

HTH