Hi to all,
I may be considered as new to planning and I really appreciate your assistance here.
I have received an ongoing schedule as an xer file from a contractor (which is prepared for a specific part of my general shedule) and I have to integrate it to my general schedule for which I'm trying to create an initial baseline. In the xer file that I get, no baseline is assigned. I can not directly import it and integrate to my system. There are two reasons for that. The first one is there are in-progress activities and I can not use those dates for a baseline. Besides, the activities under some certain WBS elements does not perfectly match with the activities that I'm planning to use. Therefore, I need to add/delete some of the activities given there which makes it difficult to handle the relationships without changing the sequence and logic. That's why, I'm planning to create my own activities and adjust the durations/relationships so that it meets with the dates&logic with the schedule that I received from the contractor.
However, when I insert the columns "Planned Start" and "Planned Finish" to the activity table, I see that these columns differ from "Start" and "Finish" dates for completed or in-progess activities. And it looks to me as if these are baseline dates of the original schedule? Is this correct?
There is no problem for "not started" activities since I can use "Planned Start" and "Planned Finish" dates as baseline dates. But when it comes to "in-progress" activities, I do not know what to do.
In short, how do I create a baseline from an on-going schedule which has "completed", "in-progress" and "not started" activities of all? As I mentioned above, no baseline is assigned in the xer file provided by the contractor?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Utku ÇİL
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