Implementing Project Portfolio Management: From Organization Structure to Recognized Revenue · Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures
Why the RBS is permanent
Lesson 79 of 198 · 2 min
THE LEAST-UNDERSTOOD OBJECT IN PPM — AND ONE OF THE THREE YOU CANNOT REDO. Where it embeds. The planning RBS is assigned to project plan types and financial plan types. Those are assigned to project templates. Every project created from a template carries it. Change the structure and existing plans built against it are compromised. What "compromised" means in practice. Plan lines are held against resources in the structure. Remove or restructure a resource and those lines have nowhere to live. The reporting RBS is a slightly softer decision. It can be changed and resummarized. And changing it means resummarizing history, and explaining to the executive why last quarter's report looks different. Softer technically. Not softer politically. THE BUILD IS UNDER AN HOUR. THE DESIGN SHOULD TAKE DAYS, AND INVOLVE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT NORMALLY ATTEND CONFIGURATION WORKSHOPS. That last clause is the one to act on. The people who…
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In this module: Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures
- 1What we are building
- 2Why the RBS is permanent
- 3Resource classes and resource formats
- 4Planning versus reporting structures
- 5Designing the hierarchyFree preview
- 6Running the RBS design workshop
- 7Creating a planning RBS
- 8Adding planning resources
- 9Centralized versus project-level maintenance
- 10Creating a reporting RBS
- 11Proving the structure works
- 12What breaksFree preview
- 13Lab briefing: plan for a CFO and a bid team at once
- 14Lab solution walkthrough