What is a Project Baseline? And Project Baselining?

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Baseline is a term we hear a lot, but let's look at formal definitions, along with what a reactive and a proactive re-baseline are. And how does the baseline work with our plan and our out-turn? And, of course, what can we apply a baseline to? Thank you for watching - please subscribe to the channel and, to join my community, sign-up at onlinepmcourses.com/assets440251/the-onlinepmcourses-newsletter/ And you can now use the $ Thanks button, under the video, to make a small donation with a highlighted comment.

[@neilshearer7513]

Mike you are a legend. I have been struggling to understand baseline form the APM Body of Knowledge and other resources, and you have cleared it up in two sentences (I did watch the rest of the video too). Thank you so much.

[@Onlinepmcourses]

That's great to hear. You're welcome!

[@LuisFlores-gh8bu]

Keep up the good work, very useful videos for project management

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Thank you, Luis.

[@kamogeloadvocate8387]

Thank you so much. Is funny because I was busy with the Baseline on MSP and notification popped in to solve my problem. 😅

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Synchronicity!

[@Altafmi]

This is so pure and helpful to build the concept. After this video, i would highly recommend performance management baseline to reviewed and modified 😊

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Thanks for sharing! For anyone wondering, Performance Management Baseline refers to a combined baseline covering budget, schedule, and scope baselines.

[@Tasteful_Living]

Mike, this is another great video from you

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Thank you, Tunde

[@BasicFilmmaker]

Always good sir.

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Thank you kindly

[@TristanBailey]

Maybe a video with this one on margin and risk of work against baseline and actions that might be taken?

[@Onlinepmcourses]

That's a very nice idea and I have added it to my backlog. Thank you. To clarify, by 'risk of work against baseline' do you mean how the margin between status and baseline (plus our assessment of the likelihood of any remediation) affects our assessment of risk to the project?

[@cesarramirez5536]

Crystal crear. Thanks

[@Onlinepmcourses]

My pleasure.

[@makgalakwemokoko2229]

if there are subprojects set within a project "not linked" can one baseline the subproject ?

[@Onlinepmcourses]

I am not sure I understand the question. But I think you are asking whether you can baseline one part of a project plan. The answer will depend on what your software allows. But, in principle, yes, I think so, in that you can create alternate baselines with different configurations. But, having done that, you must select one of them to measure progress against, or you will have two alternate representations of status - which is not just confusing, but also allows for misrepresentation and therefore, poor governance.