BASELINE VS ADDITIONAL TASKS

Good day to you all



Adding activities to a plan which has already saved with a baseline; is a simple contractual question.



Are these activities part of your initial undertaking as per your contract? (I mean, have these activities left out by you. If this is true, YES they should be included in the initial baseline. To do this add these to your baseline, DO NOT save a new baseline for all activities.



Otherwise, they should be considered as changes to the contract and hence they are not part of your contractual obligations (Initial Baseline).



Thanks



I. Leontiou

Hi Tony ,



Thanks for trying but honestly it didnt help .May be i phrased my question in wrong way.



What i want to achieve is A) I want to make 3 ( I assume MSP allows 11 ) base line plans for a particular project in Particular sequence and B) Then I want to make 3 baselines for same project but with different sequence of activities.



Is it possible i can view all my six plans together ?



I want to do this as in fabrication activity there are many activities we can do in parallel and in more than one sequence.



Thanks ,



regards.

Hi Vinod,



You probably need to show the default Start and Finish dates rather than Start2/Finish 2.



The idea of copying the dates is a a reference date only, and I suspect that MSP will not allow you to use the Start2/Finish2 fields to update the task start dates.



Hope this helps.





Regards,



Tony

Hi ,



i have never used interim plans before , can someone explain me the specifics as to how to go about it.



I copied my baselines plan to Start1 and finsh 1 fields. then i inserted start2 and finish 2 column in sheet view. It was here i got stuck as 1) after entering new date in start 2 column , i automatically didnt get finish 2 date ( depending on task duration) & I didnt notice new bar ( as i was expecting it ) was missing from the view.



i know , i am doing something fundamentally wrong , but would be grateful if someone could explain stepwise procedure for it.



thanks,



regards,



vinod

Julian,



A workround may be to copy the baseline start and finish dates into another of the start/finish fields and rename the fields Baseline 1 Start/Finish (or include the baseline date).



Then the schedule could be rebaselined to include the new tasks, but you always have the original dates to refer back to.



If necessary, you could set up a view which has the Gantt chart area bars formatted with the current dates and the "baseline" being start1/finish1 dates rather than the MSP baseline dates.



Hope this is clear!!!



Tony

Julian,



The problem that you will encounter is that, when you add new activities, they might affect activities that were previously on the critical path. Strictly speaking, therefore, all previous activities that have been affected by the introduction of the new activities need to be re-baselined. Whether your client will allow this is another matter.



If the new activities are stand-alone, and do not affect any previous activities, then you are quite right to select the new activities and save them with a baseline.



James.

Julian,

with MS Project 2000, you will use the second option, that says something like "provisonnal baseline" (or "temporary"?

it is the same thing as Baseline1 to 10 in MS Project 2002/2003

Julian,

You are perfectly right, you should not re-save the original baseline; instead, save another baseline to reflect the project as being completed with the new tasks.

Be aware that MS project will only compute the variance between Current and Original Baseline.

Cheers