Overview
Work Orders are used by project leaders to communicate with team members. Work Orders are usually an assignment of work to be accomplished, but can also be requests to internal employees for quotes.
Work Orders provide a number of benefits:
| • | Work Orders allow for time collection without the knowledge of WBS paths. If used extensively, employees do not need to know anything about WBS paths, labor codes, or job titles. This makes time entry far simpler. |
| • | Work Orders also allow project managers to construct project plans that fit the project rather than conforming to some strict generic company-wide coding system. |
| • | Work Orders are proactive when used in place of emails. They alleviate much of the time transfer work that goes on after time collection. |
| • | Small units of work can be managed without changing the project plan. Work Orders can be set to demand that Estimates to Complete be provided by the employee when citing the work order during timesheet collection. |
| • | Budgets can be assigned to work orders so that the project manager can analyze performance when maintaining the plan. |
There are two work order applets:
| • | Work Orders - The Work Orders applet is available only to project leaders and is used to assign work orders to individuals, as well as to track and administer those work orders. |
| • | My Work Orders - My Work Orders is used by individuals to keep track of work that has been assigned to them. They can attribute time to work orders, mark work as completed, and carry on recorded communication with the project leaders. |
