Creating the OBS

You use the OBS Grid to create and edit the OBS elements. Each parent can have up to 200 children. MPM supplies powerful spreadsheet-like controls to make it easy. Most operations can be performed in several different ways, using either the keyboard, the mouse, or both.

MPM treats the performing and responsible OBS trees as two separate organizational structures. If you want to include a department in both the OBS trees, you must enter the department in both trees. However, once you enter a Department in one OBS Tree (Performing or Responsible), you need only enter the Department name in the other Tree and MPM will automatically fill in the Description, Manager, and Burden Template fields you had previously entered.

To add a new OBS element, complete the following steps:

  1. Select the parent element.

  2. Press the Insert key or click Edit » Insert Department. MPM inserts a new row after the other children associated with the parent, and auto-fills the name of the parent in the Parent field.

See Importing Organizational Breakdown Structure for information on importing OBS data from outside of MPM.

If the Department you enter already exists in the other OBS Tree (Performing or Responsible), MPM automatically displays the other fields entered in the other OBS Tree. The OBS fields may be changed in either Tree of the OBS Grid, and the changes can be seen immediately in the other Tree. For example, if you entered the QA Department under the Performing tab, and then created a new QA Department under the Responsible tab, everything you entered under the Performing tab is displayed under the Responsible tab, and all edits made under the Responsible tab can be seen immediately under the Performing tab.

Required Entries

You must fill in the following fields when creating new OBS elements:

Saving OBS Information

To save the OBS data, do one of the following: