The progress model allows lead engineers, planners, project managers, and document controllers to plan and report on the development of time-critical activities related to a project. It provides the functionality to track the development of deliverables, such as documents or drawings, against a project plan, indicating any deviations from the original plan.
When deliverables are registered with the progress, they are assigned to a workpack, which is a group of deliverables that share project information and steps in their life cycle. Workpacks are based on a hierarchy defined for the progress project, and deliverables are matched with a workpack based on that hierarchy.
The life cycle of each deliverable is broken down into individual, defined steps, and each step has a weighting that indicates how much of the work of completing the deliverable that step represents. The same weighting system is used at every level of the hierarchy, so you can see also what portion of the workpack each deliverable represents. The system of weighting values means that you can see not only the progress of individual deliverables, but also what that percentage means to the entire project, or any level in the hierarchy.
Progress is calculated at every level of the hierarchy, which means that at any time, you can calculate the percentage complete of a deliverable and the workpack to which it is assigned.
Any item that has the correct interfaces on it can be progressed. Typical items include:
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Design Deliverables
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Supplier Deliverables
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Data Items (such as Tags)
For details about the model, see Progress Model.