General Rule in WBS

[Former Member]

I have red an article saying that "As general rule, all LEVEL 1 WBS ELEMENT of a PROJECT will be the PROJECT DEFINITION and DESCRIPTION". Why and what is the significance of this?

TIA!

[MTerence · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There is no standard rule, you can use different coding. Since you need to do validation in case if you want Project and Level 1 WBS element same.

The signficance for the Uniformity in the project and ease for reporting.

Regards

Terence

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi,

I would say the significance is about PS/IM integration. It makes it really nice and easy the scenario of a single WBS at level 1 with a code same as PD code.

Regards,

Paulo