Base Line

Hi Kiran - welcome to planning planet.

My understanding of a Baseline is that it is a fixed reference to the original plan so that you can track and compare changes against the live programme.

As such it should not be changed.

If the existing baseline is not satisfactory then create another from the current programme and discard the old one.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Do you mean old baseline is of no value that it makes sense to discard. If you have a continuously changing baseline as it was in the Big Dig, should you discard all the versions or use them within applicable windows, or else?

http://warnercon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/AContinuouslyChanging1.pdf

I see this case as an interesting case where a single baseline was applied to multiple prime contractors creating total chaos.

Mike is correct in that once you have an approved baseline you do not touch it. That is why after you maintain it and assign it that you no longer see it in the list of projects. That is done by design everything going forward in time is be measured against this schedule. If you really need to modify it you will have to go to assign baseline and make the current schedule the Project Baseline and also under Users Baselines make this the current schedule. Then go to maintain baseline and select restore to be able to see the baseline listed in the Projects directory.

when you hae already assigned baseline to schedule, updated it for few days. Then later there is a change in the original plan, addition or modification followe the below steps.

In your current project

go to maintain baseline.

Restore it.

Close the project.

Come to home screen. You will see to 2 projects. One is basline BL1 and one is actual.

Cntrl select both, Open both.

Make the desired changes in both parallely.

Close them.

Open Actual project. Say assign basline. done use the first option save current as basline. Use second option.

Select the BL1 of the same project.

problem solved.

***i recommend not to touch any activities which have already been started  (activities with actual)

Tanveer

You forgot one step you must FIRST go to Assign Baseline and make the baseline the current project BEFORE you can go to Maintain Baseline and Restore it.