Adding to Baseline data   

Dear MPP users,

I need one help. I use project 2003.

I have one schedule already baselined. However, at the time of
baselining, I had forgot to update the resources charge rate and it
remained as $0. Now I have begun tracking the schedule, but SPI never
shows up because BCWP is $0. I can go and re-baseline, but that will
over write the previous baseline data (my first week of tracking
indicates that we are doing very well on CPI, if I re-baseline, I will
lose that!).

Any idea on how to get around this?

Thanks for the help.

Prashanth
Bangalore, India

date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:16:59 -0700 (PDT)   author:   unknown

RE: Adding to Baseline data   

Prashanth,

If you have an earlier version of the project before you entered status, you 
could use that to baseline your schedule and then redo your updates.

Or you could remove your updates from the existing schedule (make it all 
match baseline) then set your resource rates and rebaseline. Then update 
again.

Those would be the only two ways to do it that I know of.

-Jack Dahlgren

"prashanth.sharangapani@gmail.com" wrote:

> Dear MPP users,
> 
> I need one help. I use project 2003.
> 
> I have one schedule already baselined. However, at the time of
> baselining, I had forgot to update the resources charge rate and it
> remained as $0. Now I have begun tracking the schedule, but SPI never
> shows up because BCWP is $0. I can go and re-baseline, but that will
> over write the previous baseline data (my first week of tracking
> indicates that we are doing very well on CPI, if I re-baseline, I will
> lose that!).
> 
> Any idea on how to get around this?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Prashanth
> Bangalore, India
>

date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:00 -0700   author:   Jack Dahlgren

Re: Adding to Baseline data   

In article 
,
 prashanth.sharangapani@gmail.com wrote:

> Dear MPP users,
> 
> I need one help. I use project 2003.
> 
> I have one schedule already baselined. However, at the time of
> baselining, I had forgot to update the resources charge rate and it
> remained as $0. Now I have begun tracking the schedule, but SPI never
> shows up because BCWP is $0. I can go and re-baseline, but that will
> over write the previous baseline data (my first week of tracking
> indicates that we are doing very well on CPI, if I re-baseline, I will
> lose that!).
> 
> Any idea on how to get around this?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Prashanth
> Bangalore, India

Prashanth,
Let me offer a couple more options in addition to what Jack suggested.

You didn't specify exactly which baseline data you are concerned about 
losing. Surely you want to "lose" the cost baseline because that is 
incorrect anyway. If I assume you want to preserve basic baseline fields 
such as start, finish, and duration, you could copy those existing 
baseline fields into spare fields (e.g. Start1, Finish1, Duration1). Fix 
your resource pay rate and re-baseline. Then copy the baseline data you 
saved in the spare fields back to their original baseline fields.

This may be a bit overkill for a one-time problem but the above process 
or something very similar could be automated with VBA.

John
Project MVP

date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:57:42 -0700   author:   John

Re: Adding to Baseline data   

John,

Maybe I'm not reading it right, but for Earned value he will need timescaled 
cost data. If the dates of tasks are different and actual work varied from 
the baseline (which apparently it has) then there is no way to go back just 
by copying start and finish.

-Jack

"John" wrote:

> You didn't specify exactly which baseline data you are concerned about 
> losing. Surely you want to "lose" the cost baseline because that is 
> incorrect anyway. If I assume you want to preserve basic baseline fields 
> such as start, finish, and duration, you could copy those existing 
> baseline fields into spare fields (e.g. Start1, Finish1, Duration1). Fix 
> your resource pay rate and re-baseline. Then copy the baseline data you 
> saved in the spare fields back to their original baseline fields.
> 
> This may be a bit overkill for a one-time problem but the above process 
> or something very similar could be automated with VBA.
> 
> John
> Project MVP
>

date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:40:09 -0700   author:   Jack Dahlgren

Re: Adding to Baseline data   

In article ,
 Jack Dahlgren  wrote:

> John,
> 
> Maybe I'm not reading it right, but for Earned value he will need timescaled 
> cost data. If the dates of tasks are different and actual work varied from 
> the baseline (which apparently it has) then there is no way to go back just 
> by copying start and finish.
> 
> -Jack
> 
Jack,
No, you are reading it right. It is me who didn't give it enough 
thought. I was concentrating on the static baseline data issue and 
didn't take into account the timescaled data problem.

My bad.

John
Project MVP

date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:03:31 -0700   author:   John