Work packages

A work package is the daily unit of delivery in Construction Project Tracker. It has a record number, subject, organization, project, owner, due date and budget hours. Its revision and baseline revision help the team identify which version of the work is under discussion. The status can move through draft, planned, active, review, accepted or cancelled. The Project Coordinator uses the package to connect task lines, attachments, certificates and reviewer decisions.

The package should be specific enough for its owner to explain the work and the reviewer to inspect its evidence. A vague subject makes a certificate hard to assess. A due date and budget hours give the Operations Overview useful signals, but they do not replace the task lines that explain how effort was planned and recorded.

• Ownership. One named team member owns each package under the relevant organization and project.
• Lifecycle. Status, start date, accepted date and revisions show where the scope stands.
• Linked work. Tasks, certificates, attachments, decisions and operation receipts refer back to the package.

Choose a rule for package subjects and record numbers, then decide when a coordinator may move a draft to planned work. The team should also agree what evidence is needed before a package enters review. An accepted package should have its task progress checked against the work actually delivered. Cancelled scope should remain visible as a record, because the related tasks and attachments explain the history.

Agree who may change the owner and what happens to a package when its project changes. The owner is a team member rather than a free-text name, which lets the coordinator keep a consistent assignment. The package’s organization, owner and project should describe the same job before certification begins. The revision is especially important once a reviewer decision references a particular source revision.

A coordinator opens a work package for a concrete pour at an active site. The record names the project, assigns a site owner, gives the work a due date and sets budget hours. The owner records task lines for preparation and placement. When the work is ready for inspection, the coordinator moves the package to review and collects the relevant evidence attachments. The Project Reviewer sees the package revision alongside the certificate and any existing decision record.

If the pour is delayed, the coordinator can find it from its due date and status in the active list. If work is cancelled, the package is marked cancelled rather than disappearing from the project history. If the team agrees that completed work is accepted, it records the accepted date on the package. These choices make the package a usable handoff record for the next operating cycle.

• Work Package Board — Scope grouped by its current delivery status.
• Packages Due — Packages whose due dates need attention.

See package delivery and certificate review.