...Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) A work breakdown structure is a key project deliverable that organizes the team's work into manageable sections. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines the work breakdown structure as a "deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team." The work breakdown structure visually defines the scope into manageable chunks that a project team can understand, as each level of the work breakdown structure provides further definition and detail. An easy way to think about a work breakdown structure is as an outline or map of the specific project. A work breakdown structure starts with the project as the top level deliverable and is further decomposed into sub-deliverables using the following outline hierarchy. The project team creates the project work breakdown structure by identifying the major functional deliverables and subdividing those deliverables into smaller systems and sub-deliverables. These sub-deliverables are further decomposed until a single person can be assigned. At this level, the specific work packages required to produce the sub- deliverable are identified and grouped together. The work package represents the list of tasks or "to-dos" to produce the specific unit of work. If you've seen detailed project schedules, then you'll recognize the tasks under the work package as the "stuff" people need to complete by a specific time and within a specific level of effort. From...
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...SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Page 1 Printed on: January 27, 2010 Applications Development Project Sample WBS Management and support Provide project management Provide quality control Conduct meetings and reviews Materials and supplies Travel and living costs Miscellaneous costs Consulting fees and subcontractor costs Contingency Systems development Requirements specifications Conduct information-gathering sessions Prepare logical data model Prepare logical process model Physical design Prepare physical data model Prepare physical process model Online system Prepare detailed design Program and unit test Document Batch system Prepare detailed design Batch update facility Program and unit test Document Reporting system Program and unit test Document Integration Prepare integration plan System integration and test Integrate batch update and reporting system Conduct systems test on batch systems Integrate batch and online systems Conduct systems test on complete system Prepare user documentation Customer Conduct milestone reviews Review and approve deliverables Conduct user training Acceptance testing SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Page 2 Printed on: January 27, 2010 Prepare acceptance tests Conduct acceptance tests Prepare revisions from acceptance tests Hand over to customer Implementation Prepare implementation plan Provide support for implementation Conduct post-implementation...
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...Work Breakdown Structure Work Breakdown Structure The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is apart of project scope management process. The WBS is needed to assist in organization of the project. This allows for the breakdown of the project’s deliverables into smaller, more detailed pieces. The following will provide a WBS based on a proposed project in week two about the improvement of lead flow for an uncontacted sales team. In addition to the WBS, this paper will discuss the importance of and identify the best approach to creating the WBS. This will include the significance of the relationships of the prior process documents, the components and breakdown of the WBS, and the reasons why the WBS was created in that way. Importance of the WBS "The Work breakdown structure, WBS "provides the relationships among all the components of the project and the project deliverables" (Project Management Institute, 2008). The WBS can be broken down into a six-level structure, each level becomes more detailed. The breakdown of details becomes more focused to ensure that all the work will be covered and accounted for. The six levels starting with least to most detail are, total program, project, task, subtask, work package, and level of effort (Kerzner, 2009). The WBS is important in the planning phase because this document gives a very detailed account of what needs to happened in order to complete the project successfully. The WBS provides an outline of what work needs...
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...The National Hockey League (NHL), established in 1917, had not experienced a power struggle like it did when negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for the 2004-2005 season. Gary Bettman, Commissioner of the NHL, announced on February 16, 2005 that due to the inability to negotiate a new CBA with the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA), the 2004-2005 NHL season would be cancelled (Malhotra & Hout, 2006). The consequences of a lockout would be significant, including lost revenue for cities and the teams (an estimated two billion from ticket sales, media, sponsorship, concessions, and stadium bookings), employee layoffs, loss of fans who redirected their attention and spending to other avenues, and lost player salaries estimated at one billion. Regardless of the consequences, the reason to reach an agreement should have been for the fans who so faithfully followed the game and supported the players and the owners (Staudohar, 2005). The fans were out of luck; there were too many barriers to reaching a negotiated agreement prior to the start of the season. The main barrier to the negotiations was not having the wrong people negotiating, but the agenda of issues (Watkins, 2000). The powerhouses were power struggling, each unwilling to listen to or concede to the others views. For example, one barrier was NHL’s desire to address operating losses and what they viewed as an unstable financial condition by establishing a cap in salaries and linking salaries...
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...Explain the content of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and discuss its role in project management and the connection to the organisation. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a tool that is used to define the work elements of a project and identify its entire scope. It is the map of the project which identifies all elements of the project and allows managers to keep track and control of it. It is made of a hierarchy which facilitates the evaluation of cost, time and performance at all levels of the project life-cycle and organization. The structure illustrates the smaller units and allows for adaptation and quick communication if there a problems which need to be addressed. Definitions of each task should be clear and avoid overlapping in assignments. Defining the project scope The scope of a project is the end result, the deliverable or project end item. This is what will be basically used for planning and measuring the project. Defining the project scope is a definition of the outcome of the projects end result. It can be a product or service or even an event. The project scope is between managers and customers it is a necessity of what has to be delivered in order to satisfy the needs from the customer’s demands. The project scope is basically to be used for planning and measuring the project. Project Scope Checklist * Project objective The project scope is to define the general obejctive goal and purpose that will meet the customers needs. E.g. (What) A fashion...
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...How to Develop Work Breakdown Structures Michael D. Taylor 2 Copyright 2003-2009 by Michael D. Taylor All Rights Reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means -- graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval system -- without written permission of Michael D. Taylor, Systems Management Services (http://www.projectmgt.com). Page |3 WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES “A Work Breakdown Structure is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.” 1 A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a fundamental project management technique for defining and organizing the total scope of a project, using a hierarchical tree structure. The first two levels of the WBS (the root node and Level 2) define a set of planned outcomes that collectively and exclusively represent 100% of the project scope. At each subsequent level, the children of a parent node collectively and exclusively represent 100% of the scope of their parent node. A well-designed WBS describes planned outcomes instead of planned actions. Outcomes are the desired ends of the project, such as a product, result, or service, and can be predicted accurately. Actions, on the other hand, may be difficult to predict accurately. A well-designed WBS makes it easy to...
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...This is not necessarily a large project, but the installation of 10 wireless access points in a company is a complex undertaking that has the potential to impact a lot of stakeholders and also incur a lot of company resources and cost. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is known as the “foundation” of the project (Mathis, 2008). The WBS helps break down the complex tasks into progressively smaller pieces. Basically a $100,000 could be made to look like a bunch of $5000-$10,000 projects. This activity has the scope of most departments in the organization; the WBS assists in coordination and communication with the different departments. What the WBS does best is provide visibility and awareness into any project. This essentially translates into the project teams and sponsors having a good view on the schedule estimates, and also to effectively manage the schedule to ensure that the project gets completed on time. The WBS should be designed with consideration for its eventual uses. The WBS design should try to achieve certain goals: • Be compatible with how the work will be done and how costs and schedules will be managed, • Give visibility to important or risky work efforts, • Allow mapping of requirements, plans, testing, and deliverables, • Foster clear ownership by managers and task leaders, • Provide data for performance measurement and historical databases, and • Make sense to the workers and accountants (Chapman, 2004). The activity of creating a project plans...
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...PART 4 Fasco Oil and Gas. Statement of work for Project: 1. Background: Fasco Oil and Gas recently approved the designing of the company’s safety manual and also charged the project team with responsibility of conducting a training seminar for all level of staff, as part of its strategic plans to enhance a safe working environment. And also to stop the alarming rates of workplace accident happening in the organization presently. It is imperative that Fasco Oil and Gas utilize this safety Training seminar to build the safety consciousness as part of its organization culture. All new employees are mandated to attend two days safety training during their orientation. 2. Task: The task before the Project group is to designed a safety manual in accordance to OSHA regulations as a ways of reduces the exposure to hazards n workplace and to organize a training seminar to train all level of staff on safety. Some other tasks expected of this project group are: • Locating and labeled emergency exit within the factory. • Placing of fire extinguisher in all strategic corner and training of personnel on how use them. • Purchasing of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment for the company). • Ensuring a tidy and safe working environment. • Design a performance measure for all safety programs. • Organize safety committee and time of their meetings. • Hazards Analysis and prevention • Management of tools and equipment 3 . Objectives: The objective of this safety project is to aligned with...
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...How this activity improves the chances of your future IT project being a success? Work breakdown structure provides the project management team a way to define and group a project discrete work elements that organize and define the scope of the work for the project end results. WBS provides a framework of tasking to create detailed cost estimates and scheduling at the most detailed and accurate level if possible. The WBS provides the project manager, team, stakeholders, and customer a scope of whether they are capturing the necessary task based on the requirements for the project. The benefit of using WBS: - With WBS, its good to assigned specific task to members, it creates accountability for team member tasks that are schedule to be completed. So, each team member have to be commitment to complete their task and participant in team discussion. - forcing team members to capture and create detail steps. The activity encourages team members to communicate to clarify any issues, talk about any assumptions, narrow the scope of the project and raise any critical issues early. - develop effective scheduling and good budget plan for the project. WBS is a process, it will probably take time to learn the ins-and-outs of successfully implementing work breakdown structure with a project but the outcome will be worthy it. WBS can make a project planning and executing easier, and provide a ground layout of scheduling and budgeting. WBS is a good way to see what area, or member...
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...1. Potential benefits of using project management: Project management is the discipline of initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and achieving specific goals. Project management enables managers to guide a project from point “A” to point “B” with the time, cost, or resources under control. Final product which meets the requirements from clients delivered. The successful project (people have different definition of success-can be delivered by meeting all the requirements) involves the project manager, whole team, and clients. The project manager benefits because communicate to the clients. Clients are business people. That they can see the niche doesn’t mean they are realist or they don’t really understand what they want. The requirements have to be measured so details are important. Therefore, the leader and guide and educate them. The clients benefits because they are allowed to provide feedback, while relishing in the knowledge that their input really means something. And the workers benefit from working together, sharing opinions, and finishing the project with high quality. The benefits of project management contain all the elements of what is a truly relationship between manager, client and worker. With project management, there are several benefits. Better efficiency in delivering services: Project management provides a roadmap to follow. A manager and business analyst communicate with the clients to get requirements, and make a project...
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...SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Applications Development Project Sample WBS Management and support Provide project management Provide quality control Conduct meetings and reviews Materials and supplies Travel and living costs Miscellaneous costs Consulting fees and subcontractor costs Contingency Systems development Requirements specifications Conduct information-gathering sessions Prepare logical data model Prepare logical process model Physical design Prepare physical data model Prepare physical process model Online system Prepare detailed design Program and unit test Document Batch system Prepare detailed design Batch update facility Program and unit test Document Reporting system Program and unit test Document Integration Prepare integration plan System integration and test Integrate batch update and reporting system Conduct systems test on batch systems Integrate batch and online systems Conduct systems test on complete system Prepare user documentation Customer Conduct milestone reviews Review and approve deliverables Conduct user training Acceptance testing Page 1 Printed on: January 27, 2010 SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Prepare acceptance tests Conduct acceptance tests Prepare revisions from acceptance tests Hand over to customer Implementation Prepare implementation plan Provide support for implementation Conduct post-implementation review Page 2 Printed on: January 27, 2010 SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES...
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...directive to create a document and or process outlining the product development process for Vision Tec’s new high-resolution camera, I have selected a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to construct the aspects the project. The WBS is essentially, a blueprint for the project. Major and minor tasks are separated for the sake of effective and efficient planning. Major deliverables, sub-deliverables, further sub-deliverables, and work packages (in that order) is what the WBS is composed of and specifies requirements and the complexity of activities that need to take place in order for the project to be completed. This is a pyramid structured (meaning the most responsibility is at the top but the most detailed work is conducted the further you go down) gives a detailed systematic approach for internal operations, which also, in its greatest form of detail, assign the projects within the project to specific managers and aligns responsibility. Be mindful, the work breakdown structure may require more detail as we decompose deliverables, the various work elements, and necessities of the project. Changes are contingent upon the duration of the project so it is critical that communication is progressive. The following outline of a WBS begins with the project title level (High resolution camera – not numbered) and dwindles down to the work packages (up to five levels) separated by decimal places: WBS # Description High-resolution camera 1.0 Market Feasibility Study ...
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...Symposium Paper No. 16: Towards a Generic Product-Oriented Work Breakdown Structure For Shipbuilding U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY CARDEROCK DIVISION, NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER Report Documentation Page Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to a penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. 1. REPORT DATE 2. REPORT TYPE 3. DATES COVERED APR 1997 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE N/A 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER The National Shipbuiliding Research Program 1997 Ship Production Symposium, Paper No. 16: Towards a Generic Product-Oriented Work Breakdown Structure for Shipbuilding 6. AUTHOR(S) 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION...
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...External company is called the outsourcing company Project overview The objective of this project is to research about outsourcing various services to an external company. The external company is called the outsourcing company. This research is based on outsourcing call centers of Dell Computers. Dell Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. The company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide. Dell Computer's strategy was built around a number of core elements: build-to-order manufacturing, mass customization, partnerships with suppliers, just-in-time components inventories, direct sales, market segmentation, customer service, and extensive data and information sharing with both supply partners and customers. Through this strategy, the company hoped to achieve what Michael Dell called "virtual integration"—a stitching together of Dell's business with its supply partners and customers in real time such that all three appeared to be part of the same organizational team. Outsourcing Outsourcing can be defined as the contracting out of business function(s) to an external, provider. The ability of businesses to outsource to external companies outside the nation is referred to as offshoring or offshore outsourcing. Outsourcing is done for various purposes. Business organizations...
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...Activity Assessment – Project Work Breakdown Structure • Group Project Phase II • Due Date: October 28 • Points Possible: 100 • Activity Description: Based on the project selected as a group (from your individual assignments) and the scope statement developed in Phase I of the group project, you will now document the work of the project scope in a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). From your examination of the course material, compose a paper that is no less than 4 pages and no more than 6 pages in length (not including title page and references page). An Abstract is not required for this paper. Refer to the grading criteria to ensure you have included all of the elements in your paper. You must complete and submit your paper no later than 11:59 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 2011. Submit your completed paper using the course e-mail address provided (MGT4501.E1@eCmail.Amberton.edu). [pic] Project Work Breakdown Structure 1. Introduction to the project 2. Discussion of the process “Create WBS” and what method your project management team used to create the WBS for this project 3. Summary statement of the work (see scope statement) 4. Graphical illustration of the WBS or text outline method (must be at least 3 levels – see PMBOK page 119 for an example) [pic] Grading Criteria |Criteria |Points |Points Achieved | | ...
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