Schedule: Baseline Vs. Rolling Wave Planning

[ElectraPM]

I'm in the process of creating a schedule baseline. I would like to use "rolling wave planning" (Progressive Elaboration) to create my schedule - only put in detailed activities for near future work and high level information for the activities in the far future.

I'm wondering how this works with creating a baseline - as my baseline should be a "frozen" plan to compare my project "actuals" as the project is being executed. How can I compare all my "actuals" if my baseline didn't contain detailed information for the far future activities?
How can I realized predict details about activities that aren't clearly defined at this point?

 

[BernardErtl]

I answered your question in the similar thread you posted in the Engineering Project Management forum:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=322581

Bernard
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