If big engineering companies create for themselves a specific tool to manage the physical progress of the deliverables, it is because there are thousands of deliverables and that it is considered that it is impossible to manage with a planning software. However, a planning software is ideal to manage physical progress. But what complicated, it is to create a schedule of 10,000 tasks, not to update it. When planning is created, its update is indeed very fast.
The 3D WBS method and its tools make it possible to create huge schedules very quickly, and well structured. Then big quantity of information to be taken into account is not anymore one problem, because the tools changed, and today, one should not anymore hesitate to create a schedule to follow the physical progress of the engineering’s deliverables and others.
Within the meaning of the 3D WBS:
- the Product it is the deliverable (document)
- the Activities are the steps of the process of emission and validation of the documents (write, check, approved, etc.)
- and the Zones are Process Units or Working Units, in other words functional Zones.
3D WBS changed the way of apprehending the progress measurement of the deliverables.
