Session 8 - Track your Project

Once your project has been set and is underway, the role of the project manager is to keep track of all aspects of the project.

Baselines

To be able to track your project, you need to tell your project management software that the current version of the project file is the one that you want to save and use to compare with. This process is setting a baseline.

So, for our Big Move project, we have added all of the tasks and allocated is as required and we are happy with it. We can now set this as our first Baseline.

Completion

Completion for a task can be entered in the properties box for that task.

You can also add completion percentages by adding the completion column to the View.

If you are keeping track of costs variations, you should also add work amounts in - this indicates the number of actual hours spent on a task.

By viewing the activity with the baseline set, you can compare the actual against the plan.

If the actual time spent is more than the original plan, you will see that the estimated end date will alter.