{"id":1197,"date":"2019-10-11T08:34:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:39:10","slug":"project-naming-convention-eps-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/2019\/10\/11\/project-naming-convention-eps-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Naming Convention & EPS Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK, call me a \u201cneat freak\u201d but\nafter years of working with P5\/P6, I eventually settled in on an EPS Structure\nand Project naming convention that works for me. Of course, I\u2019m sharing my\npersonal procedure, if you have other preferences, feel free to incorporate\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the illustration above, the Top Node is the Project. I have other Nodes above such as Region\/State and Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below the Project Node, my subset\nincludes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. A\nNode to contain the latest or \u201cCurrent\u201d Update. This Node usually contains only\n1 Update. <\/li>
  2. A\nNode for Previous Updates. For very long Projects, I occasionally include Nodes\ngrouped by Year so that there is no more than 12 Updates in each Node. <\/li>
  3. A\nNode for the Baseline Project Schedule. If there are multiple Baseline Project\nSchedules, I\u2019ll create a separate Baseline Node for previous Project Baselines.\n<\/li>
  4. When\nnecessary, I\u2019ll include Project Node subsets for \u201cWhat-if Studies\u201d, \u201cTIA\u2019s\u201d, \u201cSandbox\u201d,\netc.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    For Project ID\u2019s and Project Name,\nmy naming convention is in the format: \u201cPPP-BL#-UP## – Project Name \u2013 Update ##\n– DD dd-Mon-yy\u201d where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. PPP:\nis a 2 or 3 character code that is unique to each Project.<\/li>
    2. BL#:\nReferences the source Baseline Project. i.e., the Baseline Project that the\ncurrent Update was derived from. Unfortunately, the reality is that \u201cre-baselines\u201d\ncan occur especially on multi-year projects. In the example below, if a\nre-baseline situation occurs, that schedule will be designated as \u201cMST-BL2\u201d all\nfuture Updates will be prefixed by \u201cMST-BL2-UP##.<\/li>
    3. UP##:\nRepresents the Update Number which increments by 1 from beginning to the end of\nthe Project. The Update Number ## does not reset.<\/li>
    4. The\nProject Name references, the Project Name, Update Number and the Data Date (DD).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Note that Project Updates are NOT embedded as \u201cMaintained Baselines\u201d. When it\u2019s necessary to perform baseline variance analysis, I\u2019ll select the baselines from the Updates or Baselines node, then \u201cassign\u201d the appropriate schedules as \u201cProject\u201d, \u201cPrimary\u201d, \u201cSecondary\u201d or \u201cTertiary\u201d, then \u201cRestore\u201d when the variance analysis is complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Copyright \u00a92019 FoxQuest Systems, Inc. – All Rights Reserved <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How to organize your EPS and Project ID’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Project-Naming-Convention-and-EPS-Structure.jpg?fit=677%2C434&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foxquestsystems.net\/foxblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}