Creating the work break down structure
High degree of decomposition
- A toy company is developing a new range of electronic toys using a new project team - A call center is changing its telephone system to use open source voice IP systems
What characteristic should you confirm when verifying the work breakdown structure, also known as WBS, for a project?
- All the work package description are clear and complete -No unnecessary work is included
Low degree of decomposition
- An engineering company is upgrading a bridge it build - A financial company is working on a project to upgrade a major client's portfolio
What goals does a work breakdown structure-or WBS-help you achieve?
- Estimating project costs -Project scheduling -Monitoring and controlling the progress of the project -Defining the responsibilities of the team members
What are the roles of the work breakdown structure, or WBS, dictionary in the scope baseline?
- It cross-references the requirements database and other baselines to facilitate integrated project management - It contains important information - for example, about the project's schedule, budge, quality, responsibility, and methods - that isn't captured anywhere else.
What makes a work breakdown structure template - otherwise known as the WBS - a good tool to use for a current project?
- It organizes the work in a way that fits the current project.
what criteria should you use for determining whether work packages are sufficiently decomposed
- Quality criteria can be applied to the work packages to determine whether they are completed correctly -Time and cost can be estimated from the work packages -The durations of the work packages fall between 8 and 80 hours.
Identifying deliverables is the first step of the decomposition of project work. What factors influence this step?
- The nature of the product service, or end result -The most logical way to organize the work -The complexity and size of the project
Why should each item in the work breakdown structure, or WBS, have a unique identifier?
- To allow specific project activities to be connected with an organization's accounting and management systems - To facilitate monitoring and control of the project work
What are the components of the scope baseline?
- WBS dictionary - Finalized work breakdown structure (WBS) - project scope statement
What are the inputs to the Create WBS process?
-Enterprise environmental factors -Requirements documentation -Project scope statement -Scope management plan -Organizational process assets
You use decomposition to develop a work breakdown structure, or WBS. Place the typical steps of the decomposition technique in the correct sequence.
1. Identify and analyze the main deliverables and work of the project 2. Decompose deliverables into their components and work packages 3. Assign identification codes to each component 4. Verify that the WBS is complete and correct
WBS dictionary
Contains details of each work package or deliverable, defining its scope, who's responsible for it, and what requirement gave rise to it.
What indicates that a work breakdown structure, otherwise known as the WBS, has been finalized?
Control accounts have been added at strategic control pionts
Project scope statement
Describes the scope of the work in general terms for the benefits of the project's stakeholders
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Describes the structure, sequence, and relationships of all the work in the project
Why are control accounts essential in a work breakdown structure. or WBS?
They enable project managers to compare earned value against the project's performance in terms of scope, budget, and schedule
