From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules
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Baseline the schedule - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules
Baseline the schedule
- After stakeholders approve the project plan, it's important to save that plan, which is known as the baseline. That's because it's the measuring stick you use to compare actual progress to what you plan. Whatever you include in the baseline should go into your change control process. Then, when you make changes to the baseline, they're recorded as change requests. A project plan is more than a schedule, so there are several methods you can use to save baseline files, depending on the type of file. If you're trying to save documents like specifications or requirements, you can store the original versions in a designated baseline folder. Then, if something changes, you can edit a copy of the baseline document and flag the revisions as change requests. Saving baseline values for your project schedule is a different story. Project scheduling programs usually have a feature for saving a baseline. When you save a…
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