Last Updated: February 1, 2022

Activity 12 - Baseline Project

Page Outline

Review of Best Practices - 5 minutes (jump to)

Activity 12: Baseline Project Exam - 5 minutes (jump to)

Exercise Files (jump to)

Application 1 - Learn Baseline Project Workflow

Baseline Project Workflow Exercise - 15 minutes

Baseline Project Content Links (jump to)

Application 2 - Baseline a Project (jump to)

Set Baseline Exercise - 15 minutes (jump to)

Re-baseline Exercise - 10 minutes (jump to)

Set Intermin Plans Exercise - 30 minutes (jump to)

Compare Projects Exercise - 15 minutes (jump to)

Baseline Project Workflow

Review

Review and learn Activity 12: Baseline Project workflow below.

Figure 1. Activity 12) Baseline Project. — **Figure 1**. Activity 12) Baseline Project.

Note: This is Activity 12: Baseline Project in the Project MAP project lifecycle.

The baseline functionality is a big part of Microsoft Project, not just the number of fields dedicated to baseline information, but it is the basis for reporting project status.

From a project controlling perspective, tracking a project against a baseline is a central technique to ensure project success. It isn’t an understatement to claim that a core concept in the project management field is tracking a project against a baseline.

Project Example

Teaching a workshop with plant shutdown managers at a Weyerhaeuser facility, I asked the participants, “Has anyone been to a high school reunion?” I wanted to use this idea of a reunion to illustrate part of the idea of a project baseline. One participant responded that he had just attended his 20th the previous weekend.

I asked him, “How did she look?” and paused.

He looked at me for a moment and then said softly, slowly, and with a touch of dreamy intensity, “She was beautiful.” Then he put his head down between his arms folded on his desk and began making prolonged low sounds as if from a source of pain. At first, I thought he was pulling my leg, but soon realized he was in actual emotional pain. I heard him mutter in his arms, “I should have married her. That was the worst mistake of my life!”

Realizing he was distraught, I tried to change the subject a bit and asked him where the reunion was held in an attempt to get his mind off this beautiful woman he felt he should have married.

He looked up and again, in a soft, slow but intense mocking voice, replied, “At her resort!”

In The Psychology of Reunions, psychologist Larry F. Waldman, writes:

Reunions promote self-reflection. We ponder where we have been versus where we are now. As we look in the mirror, day after day, over the years we fail to appreciate the inevitable changes that have occurred and are occurring…However, by attending a later reunion (40th or later) the comparisons can be gratifying—or frightening.

For whatever social reason, high school reunions are a standard part of life in the United States for many people. We seem to enjoy looking a how people change over the years, and we typically have reunions every ten years, providing ample time for a change. When we see a person at a reunion that we haven’t seen in ten or 20 years, we often remark on physical changes, and then we begin to ask them questions, such as, “So what have you been doing for the last 20 years?” “Still married to Pam?” “Last time I saw you, you were still running marathons?” “Where did your kids go to college?” “Are you thinking of where you are going to retire?”

In Microsoft Project, we set the baseline for all timing, work and cost, and then we enter actuals over time and observe the contrasts or variances.

Journal

I was working at an IBM facility in San Jose. One of the people there showed me their two-inch thick notebook on baselining and the criteria for re-baselining. As expected, it can get complex on large projects, just like the legal contracts for those projects. Have you ever considered a project plan as part of a contract with the project's sponsor? The project will change during execution; the baseline, in terms of all timing, cost, and work, is the contract's original constraints.

Can you think there is a better workflow for Activity 12 – Baseline Project? If yes, what is that workflow?

Best Practice

Consider saving several aspects of a project plan as part of a baseline, not just setting the baseline in Microsoft Project. Baseline things such as:

Project objectives

Risk management plans
Archive the project *.mpp file at the time the baseline is saved to use for project comparisons with the current project

Figure 2. Reunions are physical and psycho-social comparisons over time against the senior year baseline. — **Figure 2**. Reunions are physical and psycho-social comparisons over time against the senior year baseline.

Baselining a project in Microsoft Project. Conducting a final review, determining the process for re=baslining and then baselining timing, cost and work. — **Figure 3**. Activity 12 - Acquire Project Team

Baseline Project Workload Exercise (15 minutes)

To start this exercise, download the Baseline Workflow.mpp file by using the icon above and opening it in Microsoft Project. Save the project as 12 - 1 Baseline Workflow.mpp. Ensure your global settings in Project Options are correct and that you are using Microsoft Project 2019, 2021, or Microsoft 365 updated for best results.

This project has not been baselined. The first thing to do before baselining is to conduct a final review. This last review might include assessing the project plan unique to your organization and an external assessment such as DMCA 14-Point Assessment.

The figure below is assessed using a Microsoft Project add-in tool called Schedule Inspector by Barbecanna.

Figure 4. DCMA assessment before baselining. — **Figure 4.** DCMA 14-Point Assessment run and addressed before baselining.

To correct this problem, a Start milestone was inserted before Task 1 and made a predecessor to Task 1.

The next step in the workflow is to have criteria in place, or a standard, for re-baselining a project.

Finally, set the baseline.

Select the Project tab on the ribbon and Set Baseline to set the baseline. Set the baseline using the default Baseline for the Entire Project.

Figure 5. Set baseline. — **Figure 5.** Set baseline.

Format the baseline bars in the taskbar area by selecting Gantt Chart Format / Baseline / Baseline. To review the condition for this format, select Gantt Chart Format / Format / Bar Styles.

**Figure 6.** Bar Styles conditional formatting.

Once the baseline is saved, the baseline fields have been populated, and the variance fields are zero. Changes or updates are calculated by Microsoft Project against the baseline.

Make the following updates:

Insert the % Complete field after Task Mode
Mark the Start task as 100% complete
Enter a duration of 7 days for Task 1 and then mark at 100% complete.
Assign Ted at 100% to Task 2 along with Alice, enter a duration of 1 day, and then mark at 100% complete.
Enter 25% complete for Task 3.

Save the project.

Exercise Results

The project in the 12 - 1 Baseline Workflow.mpp file should be 71% complete, on schedule, and over budget by $4,800, with 24 more hours spent than planned. See next figure.

**Figure 7.** Current project compared to the baseline.

If you are working with a coach, save and email them this file (12 - 1 Baseline Workflow.mpp should look like Figure 7). If you are not working with a coach and you are planning to apply to either MS Master Class certificate, archive this completed exercise file so that you can submit it for review.

Return to the MS Project Master Class Book and review the next section

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In this Application we are going to:

Set the Baseline
Save a Backup of a Baseline
Re-Baseline a Project
Use Interim Plans
Comparing Projects

Review

Review the Content Link above on Set Baseline. (jump to)

Set Baseline Exercise (15 minutes)

To start this exercise, download the Set Baseline.mpp file by using the icon above and opening it in Microsoft Project. Rename the file to 12 - 2 Set Baseline.mpp. Make sure your global settings in Project Options are correct and that you are using Microsoft Project 2019, 2021, or Microsoft 365 updated, for best results.

First, apply these two views and take note that there isn’t baseline data available for the project and that the baseline fields displays is Baseline, not any of the other baselines (Baseline1-10).

Resource Sheet view
Task Usage Baseline view

Return to the Gantt Chart view.

Figure 7. Empty baseline duration, start, finish, work and cost fields. — **Figure 8**. Empty baseline duration, start, finish, work and cost fields.

Next, set the baseline for the entire project. On the ribbon, select Project / Set Baseline / Set Baseline, and then in the dialog box, set the Baseline for the Entire project and then click OK.

Figure 8. Set Baseline dialog box. — **Figure 9**. Set Baseline dialog box.

Apply these views again and notice the baseline information.

Gantt Chart view.
Resource Sheet view. Notice that the Sponsor has baseline work but does not have any baseline cost. Why is that?
Task Usage Baseline view.

Figure 9. Gantt Chart view with baseline information. — **Figure 10**. Gantt Chart view with baseline information.

In a Gantt Chart view that shows the baseline in the timescale, insert the Duration and Duration Variance fields as columns in the view's table. Then, change the duration of Align with business to 10 days. Note that the baseline bars do not shift as the schedule does, and the Duration Variance changes to 5 days.

Figure 10. Baseline task bars do not shift with changes to the schedule. — **Figure 10**. Baseline task bars do not shift with changes to the schedule.

Saving a Backup of a Baseline

Let’s say you want to keep a backup of the original baseline. You can easily copy the baseline into one of the other 10 baselines.

Project Example

A customer once told me they would make a backup of their baseline by copying the baseline into one of the other baselines like Baseline10. I remember thinking at the time that that was a dumb idea. It wasn’t long after that I managed a project in Costa Rica that was very complicated and included many changes. Somehow the baseline got changed for a few tasks, and I would have given anything to get back the original baseline that somehow got changed. I had just argued with the project manager about some related issues; I went back to my cabina to look at the project plan and realized I didn’t have a leg to stand on. I was in Shangri-La, looking out over the Pacific, scratching my head, trying to figure out what happened to the baseline.

Now I always save a backup of the baseline.

**Figure 11**. Copying a baseline to another baseline set of fields.

To copy the baseline, open the Set Baseline dialog box, select the Set interim plan radio button and Copy / Into.

With the current project you have open, copy the Baseline into Baseline10 for the entire project.

In a Gantt Chart view, insert the Baseline Duration field and the Baseline10 Duration field and note they are the same. Also, open the Set Baseline dialog box and note that both the Baseline and Baseline10 have dates for the last time those baselines were saved.

Save the project.

Exercise Results

This file, 12 - 2 Set Baseline.mpp, should have a baseline in Baseline and Baseline10 as shown in Figure 12. The Align with business task should be 10 days.

Figure 12. Baseline copied to Baseline10. — **Figure 12**. Baseline copied to Baseline10.

Figure 13. Dates the baselines were last populated. — **Figure 13**. Dates the baselines were last populated.

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Re-Baselining Exercise (10 minutes)

A baseline can be cleared, or you can just re-baseline an entire project. A baseline can also be cleared for just selected tasks or just selected tasks can be re-baselined.

To start this exercise, download the Re-Baseline.mpp file by using the icon above and opening it in Microsoft Project. Rename the file to 12 - 3 Re-Baseline.mpp. Make sure your global settings in Project Options are correct and that you are using Microsoft Project 2019, 2021, or Microsoft 365 updated, for best results.

Let’s suppose that well into this project; a change is made. It was decided to add an additional phase and another PMO review in 6 months. In the figure below, note:

A - A new summary task and two detail tasks are added to the project.

B - That new information rolls up to the Project Summary task, and there are variances for the duration, work, and cost.

C - The PMO complete task is moved to the bottom of the WBS. It still has its baseline information.

Figure 14. A new section added to a current project. — **Figure 14**. A new section added to a current project.

Since the project's scope has changed significantly, a new baseline needs to be set. However, the project is well on its way to being completed, and you don't want to lose baseline information for completed tasks. There isn't a perfect solution for this situation, but perhaps the best thing to do is re-baseline these new tasks, the PMO complete task, and the Project Summary task.

Select #17 - 20, and then using the control key, select the non-contiguous Project Summary task.

Open the Set Baseline dialog box
Set Baseline to the Baseline.
Then select the Selected tasks radio button, check From subtasks into selected summary tasks, and click OK.

Figure 15. Re-baselining selected tasks and rolled up to select summary tasks. — **Figure 15.** Re-baselining selected tasks and rolled up to select summary tasks.

The new tasks have been baselined and the PMO complete baseline has changed. On the Project Summary level the new baseline information has been added. There no longer a Duration Variance because of the new baseline, but there are still Work and Cost variances because of the variances from the Align with business task.

Save the project.

Exercise Results

The 12 - 3 Re-Baseline.mpp file, should like the one in the figure below. The Six Month PMO Review section been added and baslined. The data on the Project Summary level and for Align with business should be the same as in this figure.

Figure 16. Results from re-baselining selected tasks and rolling up results to selected summary tasks. — **Figure 16**. Results from re-baselining selected tasks and rolling up results to selected summary tasks.

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Interim Plans Exercise (30 minutes)

You are not likely to ever use an interim plan, even if you run out of baselines to use, but I want to use this opportunity to review formatting taskbars.

In general, the taskbar formatting options are that you can format individual taskbars or use the conditional formatting option in Microsoft Project to automatically format bar styles.

Formatting individual taskbars doesn't need explanation; remember that formatting a separate taskbar overwrites the conditional formatting in Bar Styles. This next section will explore Format Bar Styles or taskbars' automatic formatting based on conditional settings.

To start this exercise, download the Interim Plan.mpp file by using the icon above and opening it in Microsoft Project. Rename the file to 12 - 4 Interim Plan.mpp. Make sure your global settings in Project Options are correct and that you are using Microsoft Project 2019, 2021, or Microsoft 365 updated, for best results.

The Format Bar dialog box is used (not intended for wide-scale usage) for formatting individual taskbars.

Figure 17. Format Bar dialog box. — **Figure 17**. Format Bar dialog box.

Open Bar Styles (Format on the ribbon / Format / Bar Styles.) The Bar Styles dialog box opens, showing the current conditions for formatting the taskbars in the current Gantt Chart.

The chart in the figure below explains the general rules of this dialog box or conditional formatting.

**Figure 18**. Chart 16: Conditional Formatting.

The following selections define each condition:

In the list of conditions, the lower a defined condition is on the list, the higher the priority of that condition.
Regarding taskbar appearance, there are 14 points of customization such as the color of the bar, or the symbol at the end of the bar.
The conditions are defined in the Show for … Tasks column. Some of these conditions are defined by the software, such as Normal, Split, In Progress, or Dependency. Other conditions are data that can be viewed in existing fields such as Active, Critical, Milestone, and Marked. In addition, you can cancel a condition from the list by entering: Not Normal, Not Active, Not Milestone, etc.
A task can have four taskbars stacked on top of each other in the Gantt Chart. Select the row for a bar in the Row column.
A taskbar has to have a point of starting. Select what determines the start in the From column.
A taskbar has to have a point of ending. Select what determines the finish in the To column.

Let’s make some additions to bar styles. With the Bar Styles dialog box open, do the following:

Select the Split in the Name column, click the Insert Row button, and define a condition to display Total Slack as a separate bar. Name the condition Total Slack, choose a gray color for the appearance, and show the Total Slack text to the right of the taskbar in Text. Next, select the conditions: Normal, Active, Not Manually Scheduled. Select Row 2, and display the bar From Task Finish to Total Slack.
Select the Split in the Name column again, click Insert Row and name this new condition as Critical. Select a red appearance and select (type) the conditions: Normal, Critical, Active, Not Manually Scheduled. This formatting will override the Task formatting for any critical task because it is below the Task condition in the list.

Note: As you already might have noticed, it is easiest to just type in these conditions, separated by a comma. In addition, there isn’t a Not Manually Scheduled. The condition is Manually Scheduled, you are defining a new condition with Not.

When finished, the selections should be the same as those in the figure below.

Figure 19. Adding conditions in the Bar Styles dialog box. — **Figure 19**. Adding conditions in the Bar Styles dialog box.

Click OK to save changes to Bar Styles and note that the critical tasks are formatted in red, and tasks that are not critical show an additional taskbar representing the duration of total slack. Tasks with zero total slack do not show Total Slack bars.

Save the project.

Figure 20. Critical tasks have red task bars and tasks that have total slack have a second task bar representing that slack or float. — **Figure 20**. Critical tasks have red task bars and tasks that have total slack have a second task bar representing that slack or float.

Next, under the Format tab on the ribbon there is a selection to format Slack. Check this box and notice that slack is displayed as a line extending from two of the tasks with total slack but not #10 Select existing projects.

Investigate Bar Styles and see if you can determine why.

Figure 21. Gantt Chart showing two rows of task bars for each task. — **Figure 21**. Gantt Chart showing two rows of task bars for each task.

This particular Slack command on the ribbon shows, as it turns out, Free Slack rather than Total Slack! Task #10 Select existing projects, has zero Free Slack, just like all of the critical tasks, but it does have 21 days of total slack. It is most unexpected that Microsoft Project would show Free Slack vs. Total Slack.

Warning: A few of the command placements on the Microsoft Project ribbon do not make a lot of sense, such as in the Slack command showing Free Slack vs. Total Slack. These are likely the selections of a less experienced person on the product team. For example, on this same Format tab in the Columns group, the Insert Column, Column Setting and Custom Fields commands are not formatting functions. These commands would be better placed under the View tab. In another example, the Custom Fields command is redunently placed under the Project tab.

Figure 22. The condition added to Bar Styles by the Slack command under the Format tab on the ribbon. — **Figure 22.** The condition added to Bar Styles by the Slack command under the Format tab on the ribbon.

Remove the Free Slack condition by unchecking the Slack command and then delete the two conditions you created.

Tip: An easy way to do that it to apply the original taskbar formatting to this view. You can do this by selecting the Reset to Default command, as shown in the figure below. This will also reset the original table definition.
This Reset to Default only works with views out of the box in Microsoft Project, not with custom views. If you want to start over with the default formatting, delete the view in the Organizer (you do not need to delete the table you are using since the formatting is associated with the view ), create a new view, and apply your table.

Note: Formatting in the table, like changes to fonts and background colors, is associated with the view, not the table. This table formatting rule applies to formatting changes for selected tasks and columns and for Text Styles items, which are items of text formatted in a particular way because of a condition those text items meet. Text Styles conditions (Format / Text Styles) can be formatted differently for different views, but they are static conditions; the user can not edit or create new items in the list.

Figure 23. Reset to Default formatting command. — **Figure 23**. Reset to Default formatting command.

Back to Interim Plans…let’s say that you want to reserve your baselines for other purposes, so you want to use an Interim Plan to represent a given type of schedule. In this case, as an illustration, you wish to present management with a Gantt Chart contrasting two different schedules, a realistic schedule given limited resources, and a priority or accelerated schedule based on a commitment to priority and necessary funding.

To facilitate this presentation, first, save an Interim Plan. Project / Set Baseline / Set Baseline / Set interim plan.

We will think of this interim plan as the schedule that represents the realistic schedule based on the availability of current resources and the expected budget for the project.

Figure 24. Set interim plan in the Set Baseline dialog box. — **Figure 24**. Set interim plan in the Set Baseline dialog box.

Next, assuming a near-perfect world where money was available to fast track and crash this schedule, shorten the schedule by changing the project start date in Project Information to 12/15/2021 and changing the task durations in the figure below to the duration outlined in red.

Align with business = 5 days

Determine process and procedures = 15 days

Secure management sponsorship = 1 day

Then, display this accelerated schedule against the interim plan by editing Bar Styles (Format / Bar Styles) and making these changes, shown in the figure below.

Task

Remove the Resources Names field in the Text tab for the Task condition.

Interim Plan

Add a new condition named Interim Plan.
Change the appearance to green.
The conditions should be Normal, Active, Not Manually Scheduled.
Show the bar on Row 1.
From Start1 To Finish1.

Interim Plan Milestone

Add a new condition named Interim Plan Milestone.
Blank out the Start and Middle parts of the bar, change the End shape to a diamond and change the appearance to green.
The conditions should be Milestone, Active, Not Group by Summary.
Show the bar on Row 1.
From Finish1 To Finish1.
Add the Finish1 text to the right of the bar.

Milestone

Remove the text from the bar and add the Finish text to the left of the bar in the Text tab.

Interim Plan Summary

Add the Interim Plan Summary condition.
Use the same bar appearance as Summary, except change the colors to a dark yellow.
Use the same conditions as Summary.
Show the bar on Row 1.
From Start1 To Finish1.

Interim Plan Project Summary

Add the Interim Plan Project Summary condition.
Use the same bar appearance as Project Summary, except change the colors to a dark yellow.
Use the same Show For … Tasks as Summary.
Show the bar on Row 1.
From Start1 To Finish1.

Figure 26. Conditional formatting for an interim plan. — **Figure 26**. Conditional formatting for an interim plan.

When finished, click OK. The two schedules should appear side by side as shown in the figure below.

Save the project.

Exercise Results

The file 12 - 4 Interim Plan.mpp, should look like the figure below in the timescale portion of the Gantt Chart view.

Figure 27. Two schedules side by side, the current schedule and an interim plan. — **Figure 27**. Two schedules side by side, the current schedule and an interim plan.

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Compare Project Exercise (15 minutes)

A feature in Microsoft Project related to this idea of working with baselines is Compare Projects. When a project baseline is set, you can save a copy of the project *.mpp file and then compare the current project with the original project. The reason for doing this would be to identify issues such as missing or added tasks or other significant changes like adding resources or changing rates.

If the WBS or scope is in the statement of work or contract, you would want to compare the original project when the baseline was set with the project's current version.

To start this exercise download the Original Project.mpp and Current Project.mpp files by using the icon above and opening both in Microsoft Project. Make sure your global settings in Project Options are correct and that you are using Microsoft Project 2019, 2021, or Microsoft 365 updated, for best results.

Look at both projects together by tiling or stacking the open window. Use the View / Arrange All command. As shown in the figure below, the task Obtain Feedback has been deleted from the original project, and the task, Present lessons learned, has been added to the current project.

Figure 28. Two project windows arranged. — **Figure 28.** Two project windows arranged.

Compare these two projects by selecting the current project and then selecting the Compare Projects command from the Report tab on the ribbon.

In the Compare Project Versions dialog box (it means projects, there are no versions in Microsoft Project), the tool uses data from a Task table and a Resource table of your choice. The Compare Projects tool does not compare everything in the projects, just data displayed in the tables selected. Hence, you provide data for comparison by showing particular fields in a table. If there is a work difference, and the Work field is not in the selected table, no work difference will be noted in the comparison report.

Use the Task Entry Table and the Resource Entry Table.

Figure 29. Compare Project Versions dialog box. — **Figure 29**. Compare Project Versions dialog box.

A comparison report is generated once the analysis is complete, noting the differences. This report is displayed in an actual project *.mpp file and saved as a project. The report below shows the comparison data from the current project to the original project:

Obtain feedback has been deleted.
Present lessons learned has been added.
Review PMO is -10.25 days in duration; it starts 30 days earlier and finishes 40.25 days earlier.
Evaluate lessons learned is starting and finishing 40.5 days earlier, and there is a difference in predecessors.
PMO complete is starting and finishing 40.25 days earlier, and predecessors are different.

Figure 30. Task comparison report. — **Figure 30**. Task comparison report.

Select the Resource Comparison command on the ribbon to view any differences in the resource table selected. The comparison report below shows that:

One resource has been added.

There is an increase in Work for all of the other resources.

There is no reason to save these two projects but save the comparison project. Name it 12 - 5 Comparison Report.mpp.

Exercise Results

The 12 - 5 Comparison Report.mpp file, should look like Figures 30 and 31.

Figure 31. Resource comparison report. — **Figure 31**. Resource comparison report.

This exercise is the last one for Activity 12.

Your Master Project should be ready to baseline. Baseline this project. You are now ready to launch your project!

Journal

Are the projects you work on expert and mature enough to baseline? Although there are other reasons to baseline, the goal of a project manager is to know their business well enough and then build expert plans worth baselining.

What is the baseline in Microsoft Project?
There is the idea of a baseline in Microsoft Project and an ideal that other aspects of the project should be baselined. What could other aspects of a project be "baselined" and used for comparison purposes?
Which status fields are based on a project baseline, and how are they calculated? (Some are easy, like Start, Finish, Duration, Work and Cost variance fields. Others are more complicated).
Create a checklist of everything you think should be completed before baselining your next project.
What are interim plans?
How might you use the Compare Projects feature to control and manage changes to the project plan?

There isn’t a journal question related to conditional formatting, and we just scratched the surface in the exercise, but I hope to enjoy the rich formatting options available in Project.

If you are working with a coach, save and email them these files (12 - 2 Set Baseline.mpp should look like Figure 12, 12 - 3 Re-Baseline.mpp file should look like Figure 16, 12 - 4 Interim Plan.mpp, should look like Figure 27, and 12 - 5 Comparison Report.mpp file, should look like Figures 30 and 31). If you are not working with a coach and you are planning to apply to either MS Master Class certificate, archive these completed exercise files so that you can submit it for review.

Return to the Master Class Book and review the next section for this Activity.

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Review of Best Practices

Baseline

Consider saving several aspects of a project plan as part of a baseline, not just setting the baseline in Microsoft Project. Baseline things such as:

Project objectives
Risk management plan
Archive the project *.mpp file at the time the baseline is saved to use for project comparisons with the current project

Baseline Backup

Because the end-user can overwrite baseline field information, Keep a backup of your baseline. One way to do this is to Copy the Baseline into one of the other Baselines1-10.

Activity 12 Exam

Complete this Activity by taking this exam. Take the exam here.

**Figure 32.** Activity 12: Baseline Project exam.

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Exercise Files

Master Project.mpp Your Master Project should be baselined.
12 - 1 Baseline Workflow.mpp (This file should look like Figure 7)
12 - 2 Set Baseline.mpp (This file should look like Figure 12)
12 - 3 Re-Baseline.mpp (This file should look like Figure 16)
12 - 4 Interim Plan.mpp (This file should look like Figure 27)
12 - 5 Comparison Report.mpp file (This file should look like Figures 30 and 31)

Activity 12 - Baseline Project

Page Outline

Baseline Project Workflow

Baseline Project Workload Exercise (15 minutes)

Content Links

Set Baseline Exercise (15 minutes)

Saving a Backup of a Baseline

Re-Baselining Exercise (10 minutes)

Interim Plans Exercise (30 minutes)

Compare Project Exercise (15 minutes)

Review of Best Practices

Activity 12 Exam

Exercise Files

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