From the course: Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project
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Setting a baseline - Microsoft Project Tutorial
From the course: Managing Time-Constrained Projects with Microsoft Project
Setting a baseline
- Now that we've made several changes in our Microsoft Project file, and we may make more, we might want to see views that show us that variance as we continue forward. So I'm going to go to my task ribbon, and under the drop down where it says Gantt Chart, I'm going to select a view called the Tracking Gantt view. You may need to zoom out, using on the lower right-hand corner, the slider. So I'll click that once so that I can get timescale zoomed out. I may also want to size columns if I've got # signs in them by double-clicking on the right-hand side of the column header. And this will, again, autosize that particular column. Now, I would like to save this baseline or a snapshot of my current project. So I've chosen the Tracking Gantt view because it displays a visible, smaller, critical path on a bar style and will allow for us to see the baseline, simultaneously, along with the current schedule. So I'm going to go to the project ribbon and on the project ribbon, I can then select…
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