Difference between WBS and Activity Codes

Of Course have benefits:

1- More accurate and Manageable  to decompose Project but activity codes should utilized to Classify Activities by location or Responsibility ... e.t.c then they are different in functionality.

2-In Sorting And Group it,s easier while in activity codes should sort by inserting  all main levels like Building, Floor and Trends

3- It.s easier and more effective  to generate W.B.S  in levels by arrows and also easier to copay level of W.B.S including all activities , all resources and steps E.T.C.

w.b.s is more matching with p6 while p3 is suitable with p3 technique

Hai every one,

I was working as a planning engineer.

I am having a query regarding the updation of a project.

I want what is right process of the updation .....

1) To reschedule the project at specific data date and update the progress.

2) to update the progress and then reschedule  the project at a specific data date.

Thanks in advance.

i want to confirm what ahmed said specially for copying activities. to copy some activities from 1 project to  another project in P6, you have to open both together and select WBS screen and start to copy the WBS level which u want. this copy including all codes and resources. no other method to make this copy without WBS (according to my knowledge)

Hi Kumar

I use the activity codes and the WBS structure in one schedule. I start off with the WBS structure and this allows me to follow our engineers en costing persons as and when the total scope of work is decomposed in work packages and work package activities.

When this is fully completed i make the relevant activity codes for further filtering and organizing. These can amongst others, selection for filtering for E-mailing, earned value summarization, responsible persons, etc.

For novice and junior planners a include 2 links to my website for further explanation and example of the difference between the two.

http://plannenvoornietplanners.net/planning-lezen/kolommen/rijen-abc-en-d/rijen-abc-en-d.html

http://plannenvoornietplanners.net/planning-lezen/kolommen/rijen-abc-en-d/indelen-met-wbs-codes.html

Regards Johannes

We can use both WBS and Activity Codes at a time in a schedule. Generally, a difference is that WBS structure remains intact and we can not shuffle different levels in WBS structure to organize project, whereas, Coding Structure has more flexibility to shuffle levels up and down during organizing project.

Muhammad Anjum 

Right process is to first update the schedule and then run schedule (F9) to a specific data date. After running schedule you may need to further update activity dates to keep to meet the requirement of baseline schedule.

Muhammad Anjum