Best practices when using baselines

The following best practices will help you maximize the power of baselines and prevent potential pitfalls:

• If you miss the opportunity to set the baseline at an opportune time, there is no going back. You cannot revert to the original configuration of your schedule if you have subsequently saved design changes. So, don't miss out on creating a baseline.
• You can baseline either at the end-of-planning phase or at the beginning-of-execution phase. The latter is better. This is because in the planning phase, you might not use the names of the real people who will work on your project, and instead you are likely to use generic resource names. You will not want to baseline with generic resource names because they are likely to hide overallocation issues. During the start of execution, the generic resources will be replaced by the actual names of people who will execute the schedule. Baseline after resolving all the resourcing issues in...