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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Component Tips
One of the most key project management documents is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project. In fact, there is an entire standard from the Project Management Institute devoted to this document (Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures). This standard contains some useful […]
Making a WBS – WBS Templates Method
February 3, 2010 by tapuniversity
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project, can be created through several methods. According to the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, common methods include: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, WBS Standards, and WBS Templates. The WBS Template method begins with a generic […]
Making a WBS – WBS Standards Method
February 2, 2010 by tapuniversity
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project, can be created through several methods. According to the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, common methods include: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, WBS Standards, and WBS Templates. Organizations possessing project management maturity are most likely […]
Making a WBS – The Bottom-Up Method
February 1, 2010 by tapuniversity
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project, can be created through several methods. According to the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, common methods include: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, WBS Standards, and WBS Templates. To apply the Bottom-Up method, all the project’s […]
Making a WBS – The Top-Down Method
January 29, 2010 by tapuniversity
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project, can be created through several methods. According to the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, common methods include: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, WBS Standards, and WBS Templates. The Top-Down method begins with the final product […]
A Coding Scheme for Your WBS
January 28, 2010 by tapuniversity
Building on the last two days’ postings, we have more today on Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). As a reminder, a WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project. According to the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures, the WBS should have a coding scheme that makes […]
Avoiding Verbs in the WBS
January 27, 2010 by tapuniversity
I naturally want to use verbs in my Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), but it’s wrong! A WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project. The Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures states that the WBS elements are to be defined using adjectives and nouns, but not […]
The 100% Rule of the WBS
January 26, 2010 by tapuniversity
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a deliverable-oriented hierarchy of the work to be done on a project. So if your project is to write a paper on puffins, “Puffin Paper” would be the highest level of the hierarchy, and below it could be “Puffin Research,” “Paper Outline,” “Draft Paper,” and “Proofed Paper.” These activities […]
WBS Dictionary
July 23, 2009 by tapuniversity
The WBS dictionary is the document that accompanies the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) which further elaborates upon the individual components of the WBS. The WBS Dictionary is an output of the fourth edition PMBOK®’s Create Work Breakdown Structure process. Together with the WBS and Scope Statement, it composes the project’s Scope Baseline which becomes part […]
WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)
July 21, 2009 by tapuniversity
A WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) is a project document that displays a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the project work. At the first level of decomposition, the major branches of the WBS could represent phases, major deliverables, or subprojects. At each lower level, the work is broken down into more detail. This process of breaking down […]
Define Activities Process
March 3, 2009 by tapuniversity
Define Activities is one of the 42 project management processes outlined in the fourth edition PMBOK®. It’s categorized as one of the six Time knowledge area processes, and one of the twenty Planning processes. The purpose of this process is to identify the specific tasks needed to be done in order to produce the project’s […]
Create Work Breakdown Structure Process
February 27, 2009 by tapuniversity
Create Work Breakdown Structure is one of the 42 project management processes outlined in the fourth edition PMBOK®. Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is categorized as one of the five Scope knowledge area processes, and one of the twenty Planning processes. The purpose of this process is to break down the deliverables and project work […]
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