Maintaining baselines

Hi Rhys,

If you are wanting to keep an archive of baselines, I would take the following action.

1. Base line your schedule.
2. Perform your updates as required.
3. At the time you need to update your baseline (i.e. as a result of approved change control or directed by senior stakeholders), remove the baseline from the current schedule.
4. Make a copy of the baseline and call it something like Baseline 1 (or what ever serial is appropriate).  Up rev / issue the copy and call it Baseline 2. 
5. Update baseline 2 to reflect the required change.
6. Schedule baseline 2 with the appropriate datadate.  Remember, if you are going to progress the data date and activities have started, you will have to update progress in the baseline copy accordingly.
7. Reattach both baselines to the master schedule, baseline 2 will be the project baseline, baseline 1 as a user baseline.

You can now compare one against the other.  If the changes are appropriate you can keep baseline 2 but if things aren't right, you still have the option of going back to the original baseline.

Hope this helps.

Simon

Hi Rhys

What software?

Best regards

Mike Testro