Schedule baseline

Below are the description of all the uses of the working document “Schedule baseline”:

“Schedule Baseline” is an output for the process “Develop Schedule”.
A schedule baseline is the approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results. It is accepted and approved by the appropriate stakeholders as the schedule baseline with baseline start dates and baseline finish dates. During monitoring and controlling, the approved baseline dates are compared to the actual start and finish dates to determine whether variances have occurred. The schedule baseline is a component of the project management plan.

This definition was found in the PMBOK V5

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