Baselines

Project baselines are the accepted and approved project plans, and are used to measure and control project activities during a project's execution. Baselines are an important information input for managers, and enable them to analyze project progress and to forecast project outcome, by comparing actuals with the baseline information.

The baseline created at the end of the project planning stage, to capture the approved project plan, is referred to as the original baseline and is the standard against which the project progress is assessed. You can create additional baselines during the project execution phase, as the schedules and requirements of the project change. For example, in an Agile project, you can save baselines at the end of every iteration to compare the plan with the actual values.

Project baselines include the following information:
Related tasks
Creating a baseline
Comparing baselines with actual schedules

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