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Master Schedule Basis

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Document schedule scope, calendars, WBS, logic, constraints, productivity, interfaces, milestones, status date and uncertainty.

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This Word template contains prepared headings, tables, project fields and completion notes. Add your information, review the completed document and remove the notes before issue.

Prepare project brief

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How to use this template

When you need it

Prepare the schedule basis with the baseline programme and update it when planning assumptions materially change. Use it whenever reviewers need to understand how scope, calendars, logic and productivity assumptions produced the dates presented.

What it helps you decide

It makes the schedule explainable and challengeable. Managers can distinguish commitments from assumptions and determine whether a changed input requires additional validation, replanning or a formal baseline change decision.

How to complete it

  1. Define schedule scope, data date, calendars and milestone obligations using the controlled schedule and scope records, identifying what the programme includes and excludes.
  2. Record assumptions with affected activities, source basis and dependencies, including resource, sequencing and productivity information that materially influences the proposed durations or logic.
  3. Name verification owners and update triggers, explain interface limitations, and route unresolved assumptions for review before presenting the schedule as a reliable planning baseline.

Who prepares and reviews it

The planner coordinates package managers, construction specialists, procurement and commissioning contributors. The planning lead reviews logic and assumptions; acceptance of milestones and baselines follows the project's actual governance and contract requirements.

A mistake to avoid

Do not hide imposed dates or unverified productivity inside scheduling software; reviewers need to understand the assumptions before relying on the resulting forecast.

Illustrative example

Illustrative example: a schedule assumes equipment can be delivered through a temporary access road. The basis records that dependency and its verification owner. When access approval remains unresolved, planners can assess the affected activities and management can decide whether an alternative logistics scenario is needed.

Explore the wider topic

Document contents

  • Schedule scope
  • Planning basis
  • Interfaces
  • Limitations
  • Project records
  • Preparation, review and approval

Required inputs

  • Controlled schedule and data date
  • Scope, calendars and milestone obligations
  • Resource, sequencing and productivity assumptions

Practical tools.
Professional judgment.

Confirm the adopted edition, local amendments, National Annex where relevant, and contract requirements.

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