Course description
Work Breakdown Structures: In-House Training
It’s amazing how often project managers begin the project planning process by making an outlined list of every task they believe will be required to complete a project and then proclaim they have created the work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project. The result is a list of hundreds, or even thousands of tasks, many of them having durations of a few days or a few hours.
Essentially, what they have done is create a “to do” list, which they then use as a “checklist” to measure progress. This approach leads to, and even encourages, micromanagement of the resources working on the project without consideration of more critical aspects of project management such as: requirements management, risk management, procurement management, estimating, scheduling, executing, and controlling. Further, it makes it impossible to see the big picture, at levels of detail, in keeping with the needs of sponsors, clients, project and functional managers, team leaders, and project performers.
Join us for this exciting program and learn how to use the WBS to make better-informed business decisions.
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What You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
- Describe the need for a project WBS
- Describe the WBS role in the project
- Gain practical experience in the development, decomposition, and use of the WBS
- Determine the appropriate level of detail in the WBS.
- Explain how the WBS integrates with project requirements, risk, procurement, estimating, scheduling, and overall project execution.
- Provide the basic tools to enhance efficient re-use of key information in your future projects
Training Course Content
Foundation Concepts
- Key definitions
- History of the WBS
- Importance of the WBS
- Overall structure
- Terminology
- Other breakdown structures
- WBS tools
WBS & Scope
- Project scope management processes
- Specification of the project objectives
- WBS design based on project deliverable
- WBS decomposition process and “The 100% rule”
- Work Packages and Control Accounts
WBS & Risk
- Risk management planning and WBS
- Risk identification to enhance the WBS
- Risk analysis and the WBS
- Risk responses and updating the WBS
- Implementing risk response and Monitoring risks and the WBS
WBS & Estimating
- Use of WBS in the estimating process
- Components and work packages
- Sizing and algorithmic estimates
WBS & Scheduling
- Component Scheduling – High-Level Milestones
- WBS activity decomposition
- WBS elements dependencies
- Work Package Level Schedules
- Responsibility assignment matrix
WBS & Execution and Control
- Earned Value Management and tracking of work performance
- Progress reports, forecasts, and corrective and preventive actions used to manage work performance
- Necessary information to close out a project
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