Creating and reviewing schedule baselines

Project baselines are approved project plans that are used to measure and control activities during project execution. Managers use schedule baselines to analyze project progress and to forecast project outcome by comparing current plans with the baseline information.

The baseline that is created at the end of the project planning stage 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 changes in the plan.

Schedule baselines capture the following schedule information:

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