Codes
By setting up a coding system and assigning codes to activities, projects, and resources, you can facilitate the communication of project information in formats ranging from high-level summaries to activity-level detail.
With the appropriate coding system in place, even the largest networks can provide clear, concise pictures of vital project information.
Codes allow you to collect and report project and resource information in a variety of formats ranging from high-level summaries to activity- or resource-level detail. With the appropriate coding system in place, even the largest networks can provide clear, concise pictures of vital information. Open Plan allows you to assign up to 90 codes files to a project or resource file.
While Open Plan does not require the code files to be hierarchical, they typically are. The type of hierarchies that can be represented by coding structures can be work breakdown structures or any other classification that can be represented by a hierarchy. By assigning codes based on breakdown structures to activities, you can summarize project data to appropriate levels for specific reporting requirements. Similarly, by assigning codes on breakdown structures to resources, you can summarize resource data to appropriate levels as well.
A particular breakdown structure can be used with more than one project or resource file. As a result, Open Plan does not force you to define coding systems that are specific to a particular project or resource file. Instead, you can define a code file that is independent of any project or resource file and then associate it as necessary at a later time.