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Project Libre Lab: Creating a Baseline for Cost and Schedule
What is a Project Baseline?
A project baseline is the initial project plan which will be used as a reference in the future. It is used mostly to measure the real performance of the project against the initial schedule
Creating a Project Baseline with ProjectLibre
When you have finished planning your project and before it begins it is a good time to save this ‘snapshot' as a baseline.
Load up your project and click on File at the menu on the top and then on Save Baseline button Get top-rated assignment help now.
You will see a pop-up window with the following:
In a project you can have many baselines (up to 10). You can set the baselines at the most important project milestones or whenever there is a big change. Also, you can set the project baseline only for selected tasks of the project (you have to have some tasks selected for the option to be enabled). For the purposes of this tutorial you can go on and select ‘Baseline'.
If you are careful enough, you will notice something like a shadow below each project task at the Gantt diagram. The ‘shadow' is your baseline.
Even if you change a task, the shadow remains the same until you ‘Save Baseline' again. You can go on and change a task to see what happens.
If you change a task after saving a baseline. You will notice that the ‘shadow' remains intact.