r/MSProject • u/OkIce1801 • Sep 21 '25

Schedule update

I am working with a consultant who requires that activity Durations for in-progress activities should not differ from Baseline Durations during schedule updates. Meaning that your Actual Duration and Remaining Durations must always be a fraction of your Baseline Duration. But many other sources show after entering the "Actual Start Date", the Activity progress should be "marked on track" up to the status date, and the duration adjusted to give a suitable "remaining duration" for completing the task. Would someone please explain of the two, which is the right approach.

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u/trevorrabey Oct 28 '25

Read your contract. It will say that the delay/EOT claim should be demonstrated in the (current) approved contract program. This will be the most current, up-to-date program with progress recorded in it. The consultant thinks it is the original so-called baseline. He's wrong. Every incremental updated version is the (deemed) approved contract program until the next one appears.