Baseline Review Checklist

What to verify before you accept a contractor’s baseline programme — because the baseline you accept is the one you will be measured against.

• Scope & structure — complete against contract; logical WBS and coding.
• Logic — no open ends; predominantly finish-to-start; the network responds when a key activity moves.
• Critical path — runs through genuinely constraining work; reconciled against the longest path.
• Constraints & calendars — every hard constraint justified; no unexplained negative float.
• Durations & resources — realistic, with a resourcing basis.
• Acceptance — recorded as a sound measure of record, not agreement on dates.