What if there is no baseline data?
Then collecting it becomes part of the project and the timeline has to absorb it. What you cannot do is implement and then look for a baseline afterwards, because there will not be a comparison. Checking this early is one of the highest-value hours in the whole project.
This comes up on DNP Project Planning Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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