How do i baseline ms project

The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. To do so, select the tasks you want then go to the Project menu and simply press on Set Baseline option.

Notice that in the left side table, only for the selected tasks the two columns will get populated with values. Similar information will be displayed if you change the table in the left to Baseline , which helps you to view the baseline data of the project that was just saved.

Click on Table option under Project menu, then select More Tables. From the opened dialog select Baseline. Insert in this left table the Duration column by right-clicking on Baseline Start column and choosing Insert Column from the contextual menu.

In the Column Definition dialog choose the Duration field. Notice that currently, for instance, the values in the Baseline Duration column are an exact copy of the values from the Duration column. In the right side of Tracking Gantt view, you may notice some grey bars that come underneath. These are the Baseline bars. Now, the Tracking Gantt view displays two task bars, one on top of the other, for each task.

The lower bar shows baseline start and finish dates, and the upper bar shows scheduled start and finish dates. Once the baseline is set, any changes in the plan that is different from the baseline will become obvious and immediate, helping you to perform an analysis of the schedule. Now, initially when nothing is updated, the bars are the same, they match each other, but when you start updating your plan, you'll notice slippage if you come behind schedule. If for instance, we have a week delay for some of our tasks, we can visually see in the Tracking Gantt the impact of this.

First locate the bar corresponding to this task in the right side. To change the start date of the task, drag the task bar to the right till it reaches the new start date. During the dragging process, a virtual taskbar will be shown, guiding you through the change step.

Dragging the taskbar to the right will cause your task to start later. After this, notice in the right chart how will look the two bars, for each task. If you change the table in the left to the Entry table, which is the default one in this view, notice that by changing the start date, a Start No Earlier Than constraint is added to the "Rough-in electric and plumbing in elevator" task.

This is visually marked in the Indicators column. When hovering over the icon shown in the Indicators column, the tooltip will say that the task has set a constraint, specifying the type and the date of the constraint.

Here we will also insert Start and Finish columns. Right-click on Baseline Finish column and select Insert Column from the contextual menu. In the Column Definition dialog select Start field.

Proceed in the same way and right-click on Baseline Work column. Select Finish in the Column Definition dialog. In this way, the Start column will be inserted after Baseline Start column, and the Finish column will be placed after the Baseline Finish columns, to allow for an easier comparison.

Your Review. Sign me up for the newsletter. Remember Me. Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. Quick Links. Why is a Baseline Required? How to Save a Baseline? You can follow the below mentioned steps for creating a new project and baselining it: 1.

Create new tasks as shown in the figure below. Figure I. Figure II. Figure III. Figure IV. Figure V. Figure VI. Figure VII. Figure VIII. Figure IX. Figure X. Figure XI. Written by Praveen Malik. Share This Post. You May Also Like. Calling All PMs! Customer Reviews. A few thoughts: 1. You could repeat this process for doing a second baseline and so on.

Having the ability to save up to 11 baselines is ridiculous because nobody knows whats going on! If this happens, the project needs to be stopped or start over. The maximum baselines, I would allow would be 3 or 4. Mention this to the editor.