Susan Hostetter

Paper and Presentation: Performance Reporting: How to Get on Solid Ground with Project Baselines

Abstract: This paper and presentation will discuss the importance of creating solid ground for project performance reporting through good baseline practices, cover the process to baseline a project in MS Project, review baseline reports in MS Project and discuss how to manage project baselines for project status and performance reporting.

Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of good baseline data for performance reporting and insight into managing baselines in their organization. They will learn how to baseline schedules and review baseline reporting in Microsoft Project Professional.

PMI Talent Triangle: Technical Project Management

Biography: Susan Hostetter, PMP, is a project management professional at the U.S. Census Bureau with over twenty years of operations and project management experience. She has been instrumental in standing up and improving PM processes for risk, portfolios, schedules, cost, performance and strategic management and planning. Her papers have been published in the PM World Journal and she has presented project management topics at PMI chapter events and PM Symposiums.