Re: Baseline vs actual schedule and start/finish dates

Why should the baseline and actuals match??? The baseline reflects what you thought was going to be the duration. The actual is what it really did turn out to require. OF course they may be different, in fact, it's very likely that they WILL be different in a lot of cases. The baseline is a record of your initial estimate and estimates always have a certain level of uncertainlty in them.

"lili" <lili@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:17CB781E-F0ED-400A-9218-457B8C1C1881@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have establishd a basesline schedule and have been maintaining the schedule
using actual start and actual finish columns. I have many linked tasks.
Project automatically updates (i.e. projects the actual start/finish date)
as I update the actual start and finish columns because the activities are
linked. However, the durations of these projected durations don't match the
baseline durations. Essentially, the projected actual start and finish dates
don't represent how the schedule has changed as a result of the real actual
start and finish dates.

My project runs 7 days/week, 12 hours/day. At first I thought the durations
were "skipping" weekends but I selected all tasks and resources and assigned
them all to the custom calendar with no change to the projected actual
durations.

How can I make the "actual" projected durations match the baseline durations?


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