PERFORMANCE BASELINES and BASELINES

Submitted by sspawar on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 01:50

Dear Frnds,


PMBOK  at one place writes  like this:


The project management plan can be either summary level or detailed, and can be composed of one or more subsidiary plans. Each of the subsidiary plans is detailed to the extent required by the specific project. Once the project management plan is baselined, it may only be changed when a change request is generated and approved through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.


Project baselines include, but are not limited to:


·       Schedule baseline,


·       Cost performance baseline, and


·       Scope baseline.


Subsidiary plans include, but are not limited to:


·       Scope management plan (introduction to Chapter 5),


·       Requirements management plan (Section 5.1.3.2),


Is there any difference or no difference in schedule/cost/scope baseline vs.schedule/cost/scope performance baseline.


If no, why differently written above?


If yes, at n numbers of places in PMBOK, both terminology used frequently for one meaning.


I want to understand is it (yellow) a different , similar, mistake or what?

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aliweb

Tue, 09/18/2012 - 04:08

If you are asking whether there is any difference between "Cost peformance baseline" and "Cost baseline" then I think there is no difference. I think this is one of the many inconsistencies in PMBOK where they use different terminologies to describe same thing.

For e.g. in book sometimes they use the term "Baseline Schedule" and sometimes "Schedule Baseline" which are same.

I could be wrong though.

sspawar

Tue, 09/18/2012 - 05:03

Yes Ali you are right and I agree with you.
But PMBOK is how inattentively compiled, that could be seen in yellow strips, which are creating confusion.

kirsty

Tue, 09/18/2012 - 11:40

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projmanpro

Wed, 09/19/2012 - 09:52

Dude, note that as per your writing (copy paste from PMBOK probably), the context is "Project Baselines" - when we say baseline, this refers to something planned or set to be followed. For instance, schedule baseline which sets the planned schedule to follow, cost performance baseline which set the cashflows to be followed, the scope baseline which sets the scope to be followed.

Obviously these three are different baselines and their differences are obvious too.

Some terminologies that are currently adopted by PM which seem to be different in writing but refer to the same meaning e.g. schedule baseline vs baseline schedule - is due to the versions/revision of PMBOK. Notice that there are many phrases e.g. process in PMBOK 3 that are renamed in PMBOK 4. As PMBOK provided the universal PM dictionary, we PMs guys must follow the latest terminology instead of using the old and overwritten PM phrases and terms to avoid confustions.

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