Hii,
Anyone gettibng pressure from Company to move away from WBS to using solely Activity Codes?
I know primavera/oracle have been pushing this but don't know how far this has gone.
Usually non-planners push this type of change.
Push to move away from WBS to Activity Codes
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[Stepping on my soap box]
For me, the value lies in linking the schedule to the estimate/budget. If your estimate/budget is not organized by project WBS, there is little additional value over activity codes - except that P6 seems to really like using a WBS.
No suggestion that any schedule not be fully integrated - resource loaded - with Estimating and Accounting. In other words, IMHO, all schedules should be resource loaded and therefore rely on a fully developed WBS - use activity codes whenever the need arises. It is not an either/or, but rather what is appropriate.
All schedules should be resource loaded from a source external to the planner/scheduler and this source be cited in the Schedule Basis.
[now stepping down from my soap box]
you can easily map your wbs to use activity code instead, just excel and the use of the sdk
Hi Martin,
No pressure my end as well. May I ask what pressure seems to arise your end in using Activity Codes?
Check this out anyway, might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNyaKBzr5Ak
Regards,
JRP
No pressure at my end. Yet. Seems to be common practice to use WBS elements.