Project management starts with knowing and tracking your progress, getting your tasks and projects completed and helps you to understand and communicate the status of work for you, your team and your stakeholders. If you want to compare planning in time the Gantt planning with a baseline gives you a clear overview.  

The baseline is a snapshot of your planning at a certain moment in time. For example you set a baseline at the beginning of your project and later in time you can compare your initial plan with your current plan. After your project is started you might have to adjust the timelines of tasks, (due to any unforeseen circumstance). Placker can show the current plan and show also any previous plans.

In the example below, the gray bar behind the blue bar for card A has the same dates, which means that the current planning has the same dates. However, card B has the blue bar further in the future, so this means there was a delay.

When you start planning your project you set the start (planned) and end dates for each card. Then, while you are working on your cards, the planned dates might be updated by you or your team. When you want to capture a planning state, you can create a baseline in Placker before this happens.

A good practice is to create a baseline at the start of your project. Then you can always compare the current planning/execution against the original plan. You can also create baselines after each big revision of the plan.

If you start with using baselines in Placker you go the your Gantt view and then click Planning in the menu.
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Then, enable Show Comparison and click Baseline. The panel will give you the option to create a new baseline. Then you give your baseline a title and save it.

If you want to compare the saved baseline with the current plan you open one of the saved baselines. In your current planning the baseline start date and end date will be shown in grey. In this view you can easily see the difference between the original plan and the current plan.

If one of the baselines is not used you can easily delete the baseline in the check baseline panel. If you need to update the baseline, an option is to create a new one and delete the previous.

You can restore the dates of cards as they were when the baseline was created. Please notice that this action can't be reversed.

If you want to learn other Gantt-related features, check out the Gantt section in our help center or ask us using the chat button.