Do you want to carry out variance analysis against more than one baselines in Microsoft Project but cannot find a way to do so out of the box?

Custom Field is my go to feature whenever I need a workaround in Microsoft Project and again they have come to the rescue. In this YouTube video, I demonstrate how to calculate and display variances against multiple baselines (Baseline1 to Baseline10) and not just Baseline (Baseline0) field.

While Microsoft Project does not have a straight of the vbox Level of Effort activity type like primavera P6, you can still add Hammock or Level of Effort tasks to your Microsoft Project schedule, using one of 2 workarounds. 

The first workaround is the recommended method from Microsoft while the second method is one that is very common in the subsea construction world.

While Primavera P6 users are restricted to same date format for all Layouts of a schedule, Microsoft Project users have the luxury of using different date formats in different Views of the same schedule.

While one can update Actual Start and/or Actual Finish dates in Microsoft Project by displaying these columns, my preferred method is using the Task Details Form which is very similar to the Activity Details Form in Primavera P6.

In this short video, I show how to enable and use the Task Details Form to update actual dates for project tasks.