PMBOK 6TH ED - CREATE WBS

What should you check when verifying the WBS?

- All descriptions of elements are clear and completed - No unnecessary work is included

What must you do to effectively decompose activities during the Create Work breakdown Structure process?

- Breakdown upper WBS levels to identify specific work packages - Assign a unique identifier to each WBS component - Structure and organize the WBS - Identify and analyze key product deliverables - Check the bottom-level item or work package is clearly identified and correct

What best practices should you keep in mind when decomposing project deliverables?

- Ensure work duration will not exceed 8/80 rule - Ensure results are variable - Organize the top levels according to size and nature of the project

What roles does the WBS dictionary play in the scope baseline?

- It describes the items that make up the WBS, including details about their scope, methods, costs, schedule, and quality - It includes cross-reference to the requirements database and facilitates integrated project management

What roles does the WBS dictionary play in the scope baseline?

- It provides detailed information about work package that isn't recorded anywhere else - It contains important info - for example, about the project's schedule, budget, quality, responsibility, and methods - that isn't captured anywhere else - It cross-references the requirements database and other baselines to facilitate integrated project management

What goals does a WBS help you achieve?

- Monitor & controlling the progress of the project - Estimating project cost - Defining the responsibilities of team members - Project scheduling

You've creating the WBS for your project. What inputs do you require to perform the Create WBS process?

- Project Documents - EEF - Enterprise Environmental Factors - OPA - Organizational Process Assets - Project Management plan

What decomposition activities are carried out when creating a work breakdown structure?

- Structuring and organizing the WBS - Verifying that the degree of decomposition of the deliverables is appropriate - Developing and assigning identification codes to the WBS components - Identifying and analyzing the main deliverables - Completing the decomposition of identified deliverables - Assigning ID codes to each WBS components - Decomposing the upper WBS levels into lower level detailed components

What are the criteria for determining whether a work package is sufficiently decomposed?

- The duration of the work is within a reporting period or follow the 8/80 rule - Quality criteria can be applied to determine if it is completed correctly - Time and cost can be estimated without having to break it down any further

Identifying deliverables is the first step of the decomposition of project work. Which factors influence this activity?

- The most logical way to organize the work - The nature of the product, service, or end result - The complexity and size of the project

What are the steps to decompose activities during the Create Work Breakdown Structure process??

- To begin decomposing deliverables for the WBS, you first identify and analyse the main deliverables. . Having identified the main deliverables and structured the WBS, you then decompose upper-level components into more detailed work package. - Once you've decompose the deliverables, you must next assign identification codes to each component. - you place your key deliverables at th second level of the WBS - The final activity is decomposition is the verify the WBS. This involves ensuring that each bottom-level item or WP is correct

What are the purposes of using the WBS

- To decide who will be given responsibility for various task - To keep track of cost - To help with project scheduling - To help you keep all project stakeholders up to date about the progress of a project - It enables you to define project team members' responsibilities - It facilitates project scheduling - It help you monitor and control the progress of a project

Which documents do you use to compile the scope baseline?

- WBS - Project scope statement - The planning package - WBS dictionary The work package

What components form the scope baseline?

- WBS - WBS dictionary - Project scope statement

What are the 5 layers of the WBS structure?

1. Project 2. Processes, phases, and subprojects 3. Main deliverables 4. Tasks 5. Reportable activities

How can you tell that a WBS has been finalized?

Control accounts have been added. These accounts identify critical areas where work progress must be monitored and controlled.

Sequence the layers of a WBS structure from 1- 5 row.

Project name Major deliverables Task Sub tasks Work packages

How do you finalize the work breakdown structure?

You add control accounts at strategically placed control points