Chapter 3. Organizing your Projects with EPS, OBS, and WBS

In this chapter we start with the big picture – how will you organize your projects and your people, and how will you organize the work within the projects themselves? This organization may be quite simple for a small company that is only managing a handful of simple projects. However, for larger companies, organizing can become quite complex. Fortunately, P6 can handle a wide range of user needs. In this chapter we will go through the basic elements of project structure:

• Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)

• Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

By the end of this chapter readers should feel comfortable designing and setting up EPS, OBS, and WBS for their own systems.

Note

The industry standard term is Enterprise Breakdown Structure, or EBS. However, in P6, this is called Enterprise Project Structure or EPS.