45 BASELINE YOUR SCHEDULE

You know that the schedule that you put together at the start of the project is going to bear little resemblance to what it looks like at the end. So what is the point of doing a schedule in the early stages of a project at all? Taking a snapshot at the beginning of your project is known as a baseline and can prove to be useful later on for many reasons.

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BASELINING COHERENCE

David Schmaltz’s position as founder of strategic project management consultancy True North has seen him work on many pressurised projects. One assignment, a hardware and software project for a high technology firm, found him working with, in his ...

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