TRINH QUANG LUCProject Control Manager| Construction Corporation No. 1 - CC1Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Good statement to ask, Kristian Soini. From my perspective, to answer your question, it should be known what party you’re working whether Subcontractor or Maincontractor or Employer then we can have a respective WBS. You’ve given 2 options of WBS wise. Let’s me analyze further, and hopefully that helps you something. - For the first option: items are grouped by main phases, this fits with the role of Maincontractor when they want to control a huge amount of task related to design for example. Under this circumstance, the Maincontrator may decompose like this wise to gain inputs from Subcontractor or solicit from Employer for tracking and monitoring later on. So they will use this kind of decomposing method to break down while generating a WBS. This allows to focus on main phases (Phases-oriented) of a project not the deliverables. - For the 2nd option: This allows you to focus on deliverables such as item A for instance. This is applied when Item A is huge amount of works itself and need to monitor specifically all steps to deliver its outcome. This is suitable for Subcontractor’s perspective. Since the Subcontractor Scope mostly directly make the deliverables. Therefore, WBS with deliverable-oriented is recommended to utilize. At option A, to track a deliverable from start to finish, it needs to track over phases, this is suitable for Functional Organization, each phase is the scope of one department (ex. Design will be under Design department, and similarly, Procurement....departments Whereas, in option B, it’s suitable for Projectized Wise of organization, in this, Project Manager has power to oversee all department’s scope from Design to Procurement,,,and so on. Most suitable for EPC contractor. Saving Changes...
Vladimir LiberzonR&D Director| Spider Project TeamMoscow, Russian Federation
If the software that is used permits this use both structures in parallel.
Usually we use Process Breakdown Structure (1st option), Deliverable Breakdown Structure (2nd option), Responsibility Breakdown Structure, Contract Breakdown Structure and additional structures like Area Breakdown Structure if necessary. Saving Changes...
