Project WBS

Turn an estimate into a plan that runs itself.

Project WBS turns an awarded estimate into a structured, schedulable plan — a phased work-breakdown tree with cost-loaded lines, real dates and a live Gantt. It's the backbone every control in BuildOps is built on.

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Project WBS — BuildOps
3
linked views — Schedule, Cost & Gantt
100%
cost-loaded straight from the awarded estimate
EVM
feeds Earned Value & Portfolio Planning
What it gives you

One plan, three lenses.

The same work-breakdown structure, seen the way each part of your team needs to see it.

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Phased WBS tree

Break the job into phases and work packages, nested to any depth — the structure your schedule and cost both hang from.

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Schedule view

Start and finish dates, durations and dependencies on every line, with progress to the project data date.

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Cost view

Each line carries its cost from the estimate, rolled up cleanly by phase and work package.

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Live Gantt

A visual timeline with the critical path highlighted — always current, never a separate file.

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Baseline & track

Freeze a baseline and watch actual progress drift against the plan over time.

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One spine for controls

The validated WBS feeds Earned Value, Schedule Comparison, Risk and Portfolio Planning.

BuildOps AI · WBS Composer

What if the plan built itself?

Building a work-breakdown structure by hand — every phase, every task, then hunting down the cost for each line — burns hours before the job even starts. The AI WBS Composer reads your awarded estimate and drafts the whole structure in one click: phases, work packages, and every cost element already mapped in. Hours of structuring, done in seconds.

  • Drafts the full WBS straight from the awarded estimate
  • Maps every cost line to its cost type — automatically
  • Adds Initiation & Handover phases and chains the sequence
  • 4 phases · 10 tasks · AED 423,400 rolled in — from one click
AI WBS Composer — drafted summary
Review, then commit

You stay in the driver's seat.

The Composer drafts; you decide. Inspect the full schedule and cost it generated — durations, predecessors, start and finish dates — flip between Summary and Detailed views, then Confirm & Add to WBS. Nothing touches your plan until you say so.

  • Summary and Detailed schedule & cost previews
  • First-pass durations, predecessors and dates
  • Refine anything later in the Schedule and Cost views
  • One click to confirm — or cancel, with no trace left
AI WBS Composer — detailed schedule preview
Schedule

A breakdown structure that holds the whole job.

Organise the project into phases and work packages, set durations and dependencies, and track percent-complete to the data date — all in one structured tree, not a sprawl of spreadsheets.

  • Phased, nestable WBS tree
  • Dates, durations & dependencies on every line
  • Percent-complete tracked to the project data date
  • Tasks, phases, duration & finish summarised up top
Project WBS — Schedule view
Cost

Every line carries its cost.

Project WBS inherits the cost of the awarded estimate line-for-line, then rolls it up by phase and work package — so the plan you schedule and the budget you defend are the same numbers.

  • Cost-loaded directly from the awarded estimate
  • Rolled up by phase and work package
  • The single budget baseline (BAC) for Earned Value
  • No re-keying between estimate and plan
Project WBS — Cost view
Gantt

The whole timeline, at a glance.

A live Gantt renders straight from the WBS — phases, work packages, milestones and the critical path — so anyone can read the shape of the project in seconds.

  • Critical path highlighted automatically
  • Milestones & baselines shown inline
  • Always current — generated from the live plan
  • Read-only clarity for reviewers and clients
Project WBS — Gantt view

Build your first WBS.

We'll show you how an awarded estimate becomes a scheduled, cost-loaded plan — and the backbone for every control that follows.