What breaks

"The plan or report does not look right." Check in this order. One. Which planning structure is assigned to this plan type? Two. Is the resource format the planner needs enabled? Three. Does the actual cost map to a node in the reporting structure? Four. Is the reporting structure assigned to this project or project type? Five. Has summarization run since the change? Six. Was the structure changed after plans were built against it? Then eight cases. One. "The report has a large 'other' bucket." Actual costs not mapping to reporting nodes. The most common RBS symptom — and it grows. Two. "Project managers will not use the plan." THEY PLAN IN A SPREADSHEET INSTEAD. The structure is too complex. And you find out at the first forecast cycle — weeks later, from a number that does not reconcile, rather than from anybody telling you. Three. "We restructured the RBS…

In this module: Module 8 · Resource Breakdown Structures

1. 1What we are building
2. 2Why the RBS is permanent
3. 3Resource classes and resource formats
4. 4Planning versus reporting structures
5. 5Designing the hierarchyFree preview
6. 6Running the RBS design workshop
7. 7Creating a planning RBS
8. 8Adding planning resources
9. 9Centralized versus project-level maintenance
10. 10Creating a reporting RBS
11. 11Proving the structure works
12. 12What breaksFree preview
13. 13Lab briefing: plan for a CFO and a bid team at once
14. 14Lab solution walkthrough