I have been using Open Workbench for planning and monitoring software development projects. I very often come across this issue while Baselining.
Eg: When the ETC is 0, Baseline is 100 Hrs and Actuals are 130, in this scenario, when we baseline the project, Baseline Hrs are overwritten as 130 instead of retaining it as 100. This is making the Effort Variance as 0, giving a wrong picture on the project performance.
Do let me know how to restrict baseline to over write by baselined hours with actuals.
Thank You
Raj Kiran
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By definition in OWB baseline is Actuals + ETC when it is set.
If you have set a baseline before the project is started then it is all ETC.
If after some time you set a new baseline it will replace the existing baseline with a new and take whatever actuals there are and write those in addition to the remaining ETC as the new base line.
If you donot have permission from the steering committee to replace the existing baseline with a new one don't. Just set the new baseline for those tasks that don't have actuals.
You could get a newer version (beta) from ITdesign.de That should allow multiple version of baselines, so you would not have to overwrite the earlier ones.
There is reputed to be a hack to edit baseline as well.
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Hi,
I have been using Open Workbench for planning and monitoring software development projects. I very often come across this issue while Baselining.
Eg: When the ETC is 0, Baseline is 100 Hrs and Actuals are 130, in this scenario, when we baseline the project, Baseline Hrs are overwritten as 130 instead of retaining it as 100. This is making the Effort Variance as 0, giving a wrong picture on the project performance.
Do let me know how to restrict baseline to over write by baselined hours with actuals.
Thank You
Raj Kiran
By definition in OWB baseline is Actuals + ETC when it is set.
If you have set a baseline before the project is started then it is all ETC.
If after some time you set a new baseline it will replace the existing baseline with a new and take whatever actuals there are and write those in addition to the remaining ETC as the new base line.
If you donot have permission from the steering committee to replace the existing baseline with a new one don't. Just set the new baseline for those tasks that don't have actuals.
You could get a newer version (beta) from ITdesign.de That should allow multiple version of baselines, so you would not have to overwrite the earlier ones.
There is reputed to be a hack to edit baseline as well.