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Baseline Labour Units

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Tue, 2012-05-01 14:01

Ron Beechey

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Gents

I have been using a backup of the project as the baseline but found a problem. The baseline has changed after 8 months of work being completed and tasks and durations changing. This would be considered a re-baselining of the project.

If I review the baseline project by opening and use the spread sheet Activity Usage, the BLProject Labour Units are numbers like 17 83 83 141. There is no baseline assigned and lists the current project in Primary and project baseline lists so I assume that the numbers are the baseline numbers that I should see if I was to import it into the current project. the Admin Pref is set to Budgeted values with current dates under Earned Value Calculations.

So I add the baseline to the current project and check the Activity Usage spread sheet after assigning the baseline to the project I again checked the spread sheet for BLproject Labour Units and found the number increased to 16, 480 706 907. If i reset the earned valve calculation drop down to Budgeted values to planned dates I get the 17, 83,83,141 numbers that I expected.

Which setting should I be using when doing the s curve graphs. From what I can see its the leveling of work across the start and finish of work that P6 does is not a true representation of the original plan.