Associating Activities with Scope Assignments and Work Packages for Scope Management Overview

If you use the application to manage your schedule and manage scope assignments, you can link your activities to scope assignments and work packages.

The activity and the work package must be associated with the same WBS. An activity can only be assigned to one work package, but it can be assigned to multiple scope assignments within the work package.

Note: Schedule costs and scope costs are calculated separately. Linking a work package or scope assignment with an activity won't link the costs.

Scope assignments and work packages inherit dates from their associated activities. When activities are linked to a work package or its associated scope assignments, the Original Start and Original Finish dates are set to reflect the activity's Planned Start and Planned Finish dates before the baseline is set. After the baseline is set, the Original Start and Original Finish dates are set to read-only and the Planned Start and Planned Finish dates for the work package and scope assignments are updated with the activity's Planned Start and Planned Finish dates. For work packages that have scope assignments with activity links, this is the earliest start and finish dates set for all scope assignments within the work package.

Note: The following dates do not inherit values from activities: Revised Start/Finish, Effective Start/Finish, and Installed Start/Finish.

Unlinking activities from scope assignments or work packages will do the following:

Reset the Original Start and Planned Start dates with the Data Date before the baseline is set. Reset the Planned Start dates with the Data Date after the baseline is set.
Reset the Original Finish and Planned Finish dates with the Data Date plus 4 days, excluding holidays, before the baseline is set. Reset the Planned Finish dates with the Data Date plus 4 days, excluding holidays, after the baseline is set.

Unlinking a scope assignment will not unlink its work package from the activity.

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