The Work Package During the process of creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) you want to keep a “blind eye” toward project activities. Only after the WBS is thoroughly decomposed, do you consider the activities or efforts required to produce those WBS elements. Let’s take a closer look at this. One of the seven habits […]
Work Breakdown Structure
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure in Primavera P6
Creation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is an important step in the scheduling process and here we show you how to create a WBS in Primavera P6 Professional. The WBS essentially is a hierarchical breakdown of all the project deliverables. A deliverable is an end product or service that the project is producing. In […]
Primavera P6 EPPM’s Work Breakdown Structure
Many project failures are traceable back to a poorly defined or even nonexistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) software supports the development of a quality WBS, which is important for project success. The P6 EPPM WBS is a deliverable-oriented grouping of project elements or, in other words, a breakdown […]
How To Perform A Top-down Estimate In Primavera P6
Performing a top-down estimate in P6. Every project comes with budget, and often with a firm fixed price or not to exceed clause to boot. As a scheduler the challenge is it make the work fit the budget. Primavera P6 Professional supports Top Down Estimating to assist you in making the project fit the budget. […]
Primavera P6 and Line Numbers
If you are collaborating with other stakeholders using Primavera P6, you may want to display the Primavera P6 line numbers on the schedule layout for easy reference. Large projects, particularly, would benefit from line numbers to make for easy reference of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements and activities. A layout including line numbering would also […]
Primavera P6 WBS Summary Activity and Deliverable Completion Dates
Primavera P6 Professional may not show the correct completion date of your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element or deliverable when filtering activities by start dates. The WBS summary activity, however, rectifies this situation. Using the bars feature it is possible to display a summary bar finish date label. However, when filtering activities via start date […]
WBS Schedule Pro Software and WBS Charts
It is possible to print a nice hierarchical Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) chart of your Microsoft Project schedule by using Critical Tools, Inc. WBS Schedule Pro software. The WBS is an important project management tool. The WBS is a hierarchical breakdown of all project deliverables. The WBS also displays the entire scope of the project. […]
Mapping Primavera P6’s WBS into Deltek Cobra’s WBS Code Field
One of the issues with the integration of Primavera P6 WBS with Deltek Cobra is how to best use the integration to update the Cobra WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) code file with the P6 WBS. It’s an easy way to keep the WBS code file up to date in Cobra and aligning the information between […]
Deltek Cobra and Variance Fields
Setting up variance fields in Deltek Cobra to track, analyze, and report variances is done at the beginning of the project set up. Deltek Cobra will allow you to define the negotiated variance thresholds, identify trends, run format 5 reports and even maintain the prior month’s variance analysis within Cobra for future reporting. Setting up […]
Video – Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Primavera P6
One of the first steps in planning a project is to break down the project by its major deliverables, i.e. the product or service components. An organized hierarchical break down or decomposition of all the deliverables is known as the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). After you have created the WBS in Primavera P6, you then […]