1.
Develop the baseline schedule that is agreed by
your team.
2.
Maintain and assign baseline to your current project.
3.
Go to View > Columns from menu > Find
the “ BL1 Start , BL1 Finish, Start,
Finish, Variance – BL1 Finish Date, Variance BL1 Duration, BL1 Total Float,
Current Total Float” under available options.
4.
Go to View > Bars from menu bar as well > Select baseline bar for all activities and milestone baseline for all
milestones. Change the graphical appearance as desired.
How
to use this layout?
1.
BL1 Start
and BL1 Finish column show the
original baseline schedule date before the project is progressed. It represents where your baseline plan was.
2.
Variance-BL1
Finish column indicates the total date of current schedule movement against
the baseline. Negative (-) sign indicates schedule is ahead of baseline and
Positive (+) sign shows schedule is behind the plan. If the total activity of
your schedule is more than 50, then apply the filter for those activities are
being delayed and see where the dates go. It save your time, therefore you can
work efficiently as you don’t have to analyse each activity. Use a filter for
instance “Where Variance-BL1 Finish Date
is greater than 3 days” if you only concern about the activities that are
being delayed for more than 3 days.
3.
Variance-BL1
Duration shows the total duration different between baseline schedule and
current one. Negative (-) sign indicates current duration is longer than
baseline. Positive (+) sign indicates current activity duration is shorter than
baseline. It will help you to find out which activities are taking longer than anticipated
and reasons for the changes. It would help you especially when the contractor/subcontractor
schedules are reviewed. Use the filter for instance – “Variance-BL1 Duration is less than 0” when you want to find out the
activity duration that is longer than baseline.
4.
BL1 Total
Float indicates the available total floats and critical activities before
project is progressed.
5.
Current (Total Float) represents your current project status .It
can be analyzed where current critical paths and total available floats are.
By using of this layout, current project's activity profile can be analyzed with original one and it would help
you to find out the reason of changes and delays. In contrast, in order to
use your project schedule as a monitoring tool, the original schedule must be a
realistic one.
Do you want to get this layout ? Then, download this sample layout and import back to your project.
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