All,
My project has approached to 87.86%. at this point, there are some not-started activities (equipment relocation) have been decided by the End user and the management to be put out of the scope. that means I have to remove these activities from my schedule(baseline and Actual). my planning department boss suggested me with the following:
1. totally ditch my Previous BL.
2.remove all the equipment installation activities in the actual schedule(datadate:22-Feb-2013).
3.apply 2 as new baseline.
4. for s-curve, replace all the previous plan MHS with actual MHs till 22-Feb-2013.(he told me that replace previous plan with now actual is the fundamental rule in rebaselining.)
5.for the period after the datadate(22-Feb-2013), use 2 as baseline to get from p6 cumulative BL Manhour Units.
6.then use Excel to draw the Curve.
another Colleague has very different opinion, he suggested since our initial baseline(datadate:9-April-2012) is not obsolete. why not do the following:
1.remove the equipment installation activities from the baseline.
2. update the baseline to actual(22-Feb-2013).
3, Draw the curve.
or he said, more easier, we would delete the activities in actual and make it as baseline, but no 4th step as suggested by the first peroson, he though it was obsurd.
i need you experts' insight. how can i proceed now?
In my personal opinion, we should use the rebaseline as the second baseline after contract award, like baseline rev2 and store even the actual progress and actual dates as it was reported. Then reforecast the remaining works and readjust the current scope by deleting and readjusting the links. Then assign this as the second baseline then you start monitoring aganist both
Justin,
To some extent it depends on the requirements of your client / contract, but my preference would be to simply take a copy of your current baseline, delete the removed scope from the copy (along with any required corrections to logic), and make that your new baseline.
I see no need to actualise the baseline
Making the baseline = actual progress for all work done when you are over 80% complete makes no sense to me at all, as it will hide all historic overperformance or underperformance.
Above all though, make sure you get agreement on how to proceed with your line manager, project manager and (internal or external) client.
Check with your client / planning head and proceed accordingly; this is matter of mutual understanding.