The following example is just one basic way to use the Progress functionality.
Five Smart P&ID drawings are created and ready to be tracked with Progress. The planner creates a workpack for that package of P&IDs. The workpack defines the basic steps that each P&ID drawing must complete before the drawing is finished. The completion of each drawing has four steps: Start, Issue for Review, Issue for Construction, and Issue to As-Built. Each of these steps is assigned a weighting, as shown below:
Step |
Weighting |
---|---|
Start |
0% |
Issue for Review |
20% |
Issue for Construction |
50% |
Issue to As-Built |
30% |
These weightings indicate that when a document has been issued for review, that document is 20% complete (the sum of all completed steps). When it has been issued for construction, it is 70% complete (0% + 20% + 50%), and it is finished once it has been issued to As-Built. The Start step has no weighting, so when it is completed, no progress has been made; however, it does allow you to indicate that work on that deliverable has begun. The sum of the weights assigned to all steps should be 100 to represent the document is 100% complete.
Similarly, each deliverable in the workpack is given a weighting that indicates how much of the workpack task it represents. See the table below:
Deliverable |
Weighting |
---|---|
Doc-001 |
5% |
Doc-002 |
5% |
Doc-003 |
20% |
Doc-004 |
30% |
Doc-005 |
40% |
These weightings indicate that much more work is involved in completing documents Doc-003, Doc-004, and Doc-005 than Doc-001 and Doc-002. Therefore, when you view progress data for the entire workpack, the completion of the first two documents does not weigh as heavily as the progress of the last three.
The following table shows the progress data for this workpack over the first five cut-off dates defined for the project. The table provides the percentage complete for each deliverable, according to which steps have been completed, and the bottom row reflects the percentage of the entire workpack that is complete, using the completion percentages for each deliverable and its weighting in the workpack.