Work Packaging for Project Control

Work packages, as their name suggests, are packages of tasks in which completion is required for the facility to be built. For a total project, the sum of all work packages will account for all planned expenditures of personnel, materials, and equipment. It will also account for the duration of all the work. Cataloging these establishes the structure for integration of cost, schedule, and resource control. A control account can be either a task or work package depending upon the purpose. A task is an appropriate control account for collecting information for the historical database. A control schedule work package is an appropriate control account for collecting information for status reporting to an owner. The Control Schedule is mid-level with enough detail to establish key relationships. More detailed schedules and work packages are developed by the project participants for short-range planning.