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
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WBS * Review Case 7d … 10/27/15 – 11/3/15 * Purchase Case 1d … 10/27/15 – 10/27/2015 * Read Case 7d … 10/27/2015 – 11/3/2015 (Predecessors: Purchase Case) * Take notes 7d … 10/27/2015 – 11/3/2015 (Predecessors: Read Case) * Discuss Case Issues 10d … 11/3/2015 – 11/13/2015 (Predecessors: Read Case) * Group Meeting 10d … 11/3/2015 – 11/13/2015 * Review Notes 10d … 11/3/2015 – 11/13/2015 (Predecessors: Take Notes) * Consider Action Plan 4d … 11/13/2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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