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Understanding baseline, schedule, and actual values

Understanding baseline, schedule, and actual values

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Understanding baseline, schedule, and actual values

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- After your project plan is approved it's important to save target values like dates, work hours, and cost in a baseline. Project also keeps track of actual values you record and the current forecast of the schedule. Before you evaluate performance in Project it's important to understand what baseline, scheduled and actual values represent. Well, the GANTT CHART shown here doesn't show the baseline, so let's go to the Tracking GANTT. On the view tab, click the bottom half of the GANTT CHART button and choose Tracking Gantt. If you don't see it in this menu you can always choose more views. Scroll down until you see the view, click it and then click Apply. I'm also going to apply the Baseline Table. So I click the Tables button, choose More Tables, then select Baseline and click Apply. Now in this view you can see baseline values and you can also see grey task bars for the baseline. The blue and red task bars represent the current forecast for the schedule. Another place to see all…

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