SAB11#40_Create_WBS

SAB11#40_Create_WBS

1. This organizational tools shows all the scope on the project, broken down into manageable deliverables.

   •  Questions on the exam are designed to identify those who know what WBSs are but who do not use them inthe real world. 
   • Provides a structured vision for the project and helps to ensure that nothing slips through the cracks
     • Questions on the exam are designed to identify those who know what WBSs are but who do not use them in the real world.
   • A WBS shows a complete hierarchy of the project, making it easier to see how one deliverable relates to another.

2. Inputs

   • Your company’s culture will play a big part in how you break the work down.
   • The requirements document
   • Project scope statement
   • OPAs
     • The forms and templates here will be really useful! You’ll usually start with a template that you get from the organizational process asset library.
   • Scope Management plan
     • This plan tells you about all the processes you’ll use to create the WBS.
   • EEFs
     • Your company’s culture will play a big part in how you break the work down.

3. RULES

   • 1. The WBS is created with help the team
   • 2.Each Level of the WBS is a smaller piece of the previous level
   • 3.The entire project is included in each of the highest levels of the WBS. Eventually some levels will be broken down further than others
   • 4.The WBS includes only deliverables that are required for the project
   • 5.Deliverables not in the WBS are not part of the project

4. Tools

   • Descomposition
     • Breaking down the work
       • Its only goal is to show the work involved in creating the product.
     • Break it down by project or phase
     • Decompose deliverables into work packages
       • Every work package in the WBS has a unique number,
         • The work package is the lowest level on a WBS
         • The higher levels are used to categorize the work packages
   • Expert judgment

5. Output

   • Work breakdown structure
     • Baselines
       • Baselines are simply the final, approved version of certain pieces of the project management plan
   • WBS Dictionary
     • Provides a description of the work to be done for each EBS work package
       • the WBS dictionary describes the schedule milestone, the acceptance criteria, durations interdependencies, adn other information about the work package

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