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Document the baseline

Document the baseline

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Document the baseline

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- [Instructor] Once the stakeholders have approved the project plan, it's time to define your project baseline. The baseline is a collection of the approved project documents. like requirements, the schedule, budget, spreadsheets, and more. Basically everything you want to control with Change Management Process. With baseline documents, you can compare actual project performance to the baseline to see how the project's doing. Because the baseline is controlled by the Change Management Process, any changes to baseline documents show up as change requests. How you define the baseline depends on what you're defining. First, save the baseline version of plan documents. If something changes, you flag those changes in a revision of the corresponding baseline document. Next, baseline the values in your project schedule. Project scheduling programs typically provide a feature for saving a baseline. The baseline includes the approved values for start and finish dates, task duration, work…

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