Work Products and Documents

The Work Products and Documents feature enables you to catalog and track all project-related documents and deliverables. This includes guidelines, procedures, standards, plans, design templates, worksheets, and all types of project deliverables. A work product or document can provide standards and guidelines for performing an activity's work, or it can be formally identified as a project standard. A work product or document can also be activity output, such as testing plans and blueprints. You can also use the Work Products and Documents feature to identify project deliverables, documents that will be delivered to the end user or customer at the end of the project.

With P6 Professional, you can assign work products and documents to activities and to work breakdown structure (WBS) elements. During a project's early planning stages, you can assign a work product or document to a WBS element. Later, you can assign the same work product or document to one or more activities as your project's activity details develop.

The Work Products and Documents feature enables you to maintain general information about project documents, such as revision date, location, and author. The actual document files can be stored on a network file server, configuration management system, or Web site, depending on project requirements. You can specify a public or private location for the document files. Specifying a public location enables any P6 Professional user to view the document.