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is sans-baseline 

FREE WHITE PAPER: TOP TEN PREREQUISITES OF A SCHEDULE BASELINE

We all want a reliable project baseline for all established processes to work well. The official schedule baseline gives the project a good line of sight to what it wants. Having a good baseline increases the company’s strategic advantage and makes it more successful compared to those who have none. Project baseline must be established according to plan, with care and prudence, following the ten prerequisites provided in this White Paper as a minimum.

Construction planner and scheduler Frank Lee was at it again. He was in the process of creating and developing another phantom project schedule for the Project Control Manager. The initiative started when the Project Manager complained to the Project Controls Manager.

We have a Primavera schedule with actual data. Now we want to remove the actual so that we can have an As-Planned schedule.

I will show you how to do it in this article.

It was almost midnight.  Our 3-hour trip from Budapest through Frankfurt to Milan was now a 10-hour adventure.  Our bags were coming off the luggage carousel completely soaked.  My eyes were dry and uncomfortable.  And, I realized I ignored the fundamentals of risk management.

At its core, risk management should be simple:

In 2014, the enterprise software for operating systems across the desktops of a large Aerospace & Defense company was being upgraded from XP to Windows 7.  While the upgrade was beneficial from a company-wide technology perspective, it effectively made the company’s current Schedule Risk Assessment and Analysis tool – Primavera Risk Analytics (PRA / formerly known as Pertmaster) – obsolete. Team leaders were faced with a decision to either upgrade their current software or look at something brand new.  They decided to explore their available options.

Broadly speaking there are three different types of projects and each have different characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. These need to be understood by project leaders so they can identify appropriate resources and tools to manage the project, as well as adjusting their leadership role.

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