WBS is a deliverable oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components. It defines and groups a project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project.
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What to do in a WBS when a deliverable is required in two bigger deliverables?
This question is best described through an example. Imagine you're doing a project to promote a product. You have two equally important deliverables:
Street Advertisement
Social Websites ...
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How granular should an estimate be for building a web page?
Sufficient Granularity?
I have a ASP.NET web page to construct. The design of the UI and classes is already complete. I have prepared a task breakdown, including hours needed for each task.
Does ...
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Software to help estimate effort and record effort for timeline purposes (one man team)
I am trying to find some software that allows the following workflow:
Create a wbs with effort.
Plot wbs items onto a Gantt chart to see when items should/could be
completed by and build a schedule.
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How is a group of deliverables called?
They are not projects, as one project contains more groups of deliverables. Is milestone a correct term?
I hope the chart below explains it a little.
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is there any MS Excel template to create WBS? [closed]
is there any template to create list, tree or table style of Work Breakdown Structure using MS excel?
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What is the relationship between WBS and Gantt chart? [closed]
It seems all the two do just one thing:
breakthrough the works that we must do in our project.
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How can I learn to break down a big software project into more manageable tasks in terms of progress monitoring?
One thing I constantly see project management books talk about is the necessity of a method of tracking progress. One you break down the big picture into many smaller tasks, it becomes easier to see ...
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What 'economic drivers' should be part of our “software business case”?
So we need to perform a feasibility study of one of our initiatives and need to present it to the 'higher ups' - It needs to incorporate numbers (estimates) both from the perspective of tangibles and ...
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Is it possible to reduce costs by crashing a project?
I'm working on a study assignment, which involves creating a WBS and GANTT chart for a 6-month project.
Then I'm supposed expedite one of the tasks by increasing resources to it, thus decreasing the ...
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Structuring a WBS
Should the structuring of tasks in a WBS be according to vertical "features" of a product or horizontal "aspects" of a product?
For example, say I'm developing warehouse software with 3 modules:
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What is the right approach to work package size?
In medium size project were you are interfacing with functional Project Managers, and you are the PM for the entire project.
How much details do you want in your WBS?
Do you break it and keep it ...
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how to apply the fixed and variable costs on the WBS to estimate the profit?
I have been asked to estimate the profit that could be achieved for a portfolio for IT training courses. I have to estimate the income and the fixed and variable costs and hence the profit.
I made ...
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Should every WBS item map to a single “charge number”?
Assuming you are running projects where every employee submits their time in a corporate accounting system like SAP or Deltek, should every project always define charge numbers for every WBS item? ...
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Help regarding creating a WBS for an Application
I'm trying to build a work breakdown structure for a project I'm working on and since this is my first time doing something like this I was wondering if I could get some guidance.
The application I'm ...
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Using Spreadsheet for Backlog - Dependencies and Priority
I'm currently using a Google Spreadsheet to manage my product backlog. It has a list of stories, each with an identifier, feature it belongs to, story points, and the sprint that it's assigned to. It ...
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Where to get general info on Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
I work in a software development company. I have this major ticket for which I have to produce a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). I also have to prepare an estimation for the ticket. The ticket deals ...
