...SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Page 1 Printed on: January 27, 2010 Applications Development Project Sample WBS Management and support Provide project management Provide quality control Conduct meetings and reviews Materials and supplies Travel and living costs Miscellaneous costs Consulting fees and subcontractor costs Contingency Systems development Requirements specifications Conduct information-gathering sessions Prepare logical data model Prepare logical process model Physical design Prepare physical data model Prepare physical process model Online system Prepare detailed design Program and unit test Document Batch system Prepare detailed design Batch update facility Program and unit test Document Reporting system Program and unit test Document Integration Prepare integration plan System integration and test Integrate batch update and reporting system Conduct systems test on batch systems Integrate batch and online systems Conduct systems test on complete system Prepare user documentation Customer Conduct milestone reviews Review and approve deliverables Conduct user training Acceptance testing SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Page 2 Printed on: January 27, 2010 Prepare acceptance tests Conduct acceptance tests Prepare revisions from acceptance tests Hand over to customer Implementation Prepare implementation plan Provide support for implementation Conduct post-implementation...
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...How to Develop Work Breakdown Structures Michael D. Taylor 2 Copyright 2003-2009 by Michael D. Taylor All Rights Reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means -- graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval system -- without written permission of Michael D. Taylor, Systems Management Services (http://www.projectmgt.com). Page |3 WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES “A Work Breakdown Structure is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables.” 1 A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a fundamental project management technique for defining and organizing the total scope of a project, using a hierarchical tree structure. The first two levels of the WBS (the root node and Level 2) define a set of planned outcomes that collectively and exclusively represent 100% of the project scope. At each subsequent level, the children of a parent node collectively and exclusively represent 100% of the scope of their parent node. A well-designed WBS describes planned outcomes instead of planned actions. Outcomes are the desired ends of the project, such as a product, result, or service, and can be predicted accurately. Actions, on the other hand, may be difficult to predict accurately. A well-designed WBS makes it easy to...
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...improves the chances of your future IT project being a success? Work breakdown structure provides the project management team a way to define and group a project discrete work elements that organize and define the scope of the work for the project end results. WBS provides a framework of tasking to create detailed cost estimates and scheduling at the most detailed and accurate level if possible. The WBS provides the project manager, team, stakeholders, and customer a scope of whether they are capturing the necessary task based on the requirements for the project. The benefit of using WBS: - With WBS, its good to assigned specific task to members, it creates accountability for team member tasks that are schedule to be completed. So, each team member have to be commitment to complete their task and participant in team discussion. - forcing team members to capture and create detail steps. The activity encourages team members to communicate to clarify any issues, talk about any assumptions, narrow the scope of the project and raise any critical issues early. - develop effective scheduling and good budget plan for the project. WBS is a process, it will probably take time to learn the ins-and-outs of successfully implementing work breakdown structure with a project but the outcome will be worthy it. WBS can make a project planning and executing easier, and provide a ground layout of scheduling and budgeting. WBS is a good way to see what area, or member causes the project to...
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...This is not necessarily a large project, but the installation of 10 wireless access points in a company is a complex undertaking that has the potential to impact a lot of stakeholders and also incur a lot of company resources and cost. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is known as the “foundation” of the project (Mathis, 2008). The WBS helps break down the complex tasks into progressively smaller pieces. Basically a $100,000 could be made to look like a bunch of $5000-$10,000 projects. This activity has the scope of most departments in the organization; the WBS assists in coordination and communication with the different departments. What the WBS does best is provide visibility and awareness into any project. This essentially translates into the project teams and sponsors having a good view on the schedule estimates, and also to effectively manage the schedule to ensure that the project gets completed on time. The WBS should be designed with consideration for its eventual uses. The WBS design should try to achieve certain goals: • Be compatible with how the work will be done and how costs and schedules will be managed, • Give visibility to important or risky work efforts, • Allow mapping of requirements, plans, testing, and deliverables, • Foster clear ownership by managers and task leaders, • Provide data for performance measurement and historical databases, and • Make sense to the workers and accountants (Chapman, 2004). The activity of creating a project plans...
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...Activity Assessment – Project Work Breakdown Structure • Group Project Phase II • Due Date: October 28 • Points Possible: 100 • Activity Description: Based on the project selected as a group (from your individual assignments) and the scope statement developed in Phase I of the group project, you will now document the work of the project scope in a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). From your examination of the course material, compose a paper that is no less than 4 pages and no more than 6 pages in length (not including title page and references page). An Abstract is not required for this paper. Refer to the grading criteria to ensure you have included all of the elements in your paper. You must complete and submit your paper no later than 11:59 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 2011. Submit your completed paper using the course e-mail address provided (MGT4501.E1@eCmail.Amberton.edu). [pic] Project Work Breakdown Structure 1. Introduction to the project 2. Discussion of the process “Create WBS” and what method your project management team used to create the WBS for this project 3. Summary statement of the work (see scope statement) 4. Graphical illustration of the WBS or text outline method (must be at least 3 levels – see PMBOK page 119 for an example) [pic] Grading Criteria |Criteria |Points |Points Achieved | | ...
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...High-resolution camera WBS Dear Kara and Jessie, Following our meeting on your directive to create a document and or process outlining the product development process for Vision Tec’s new high-resolution camera, I have selected a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to construct the aspects the project. The WBS is essentially, a blueprint for the project. Major and minor tasks are separated for the sake of effective and efficient planning. Major deliverables, sub-deliverables, further sub-deliverables, and work packages (in that order) is what the WBS is composed of and specifies requirements and the complexity of activities that need to take place in order for the project to be completed. This is a pyramid structured (meaning the most responsibility is at the top but the most detailed work is conducted the further you go down) gives a detailed systematic approach for internal operations, which also, in its greatest form of detail, assign the projects within the project to specific managers and aligns responsibility. Be mindful, the work breakdown structure may require more detail as we decompose deliverables, the various work elements, and necessities of the project. Changes are contingent upon the duration of the project so it is critical that communication is progressive. The following outline of a WBS begins with the project title level (High resolution camera – not numbered) and dwindles down to the work packages (up to five levels) separated by decimal places: WBS # Description ...
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...1. Potential benefits of using project management: Project management is the discipline of initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and achieving specific goals. Project management enables managers to guide a project from point “A” to point “B” with the time, cost, or resources under control. Final product which meets the requirements from clients delivered. The successful project (people have different definition of success-can be delivered by meeting all the requirements) involves the project manager, whole team, and clients. The project manager benefits because communicate to the clients. Clients are business people. That they can see the niche doesn’t mean they are realist or they don’t really understand what they want. The requirements have to be measured so details are important. Therefore, the leader and guide and educate them. The clients benefits because they are allowed to provide feedback, while relishing in the knowledge that their input really means something. And the workers benefit from working together, sharing opinions, and finishing the project with high quality. The benefits of project management contain all the elements of what is a truly relationship between manager, client and worker. With project management, there are several benefits. Better efficiency in delivering services: Project management provides a roadmap to follow. A manager and business analyst communicate with the clients to get requirements, and make a project...
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...Kara and Jessie, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to organize the product development of the new Vision System we discussed earlier in the week. Per Kara request I have developed an organized breakdown of the development process in the form of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). A WBS is a useful tool used by project managers to help breakdown complex project into smaller subprojects into smaller pieces of work called Work Packages. This is useful to the project because it will clearly define what needs to be budgeted, scheduled and controlled. As with every WBS a good project manager will work with the key stakeholders to gain insight and perspective on what steps need to be taken in order to have a successful project. When developing the WBS for this project I used the notes from our prior meeting to develop the WBS for Vision System. The WBS will be broken down by number for ease of reading and comprehension and the numbering system is as follows. 01 is the project, 01-01 will be considered the next sublevel of the project and then if necessary 01-01.1 until we reach our individual work packages. Work Breakdown Structure for Vision System 01 – Vision System Product Development * – Market Feasibility 1-2.1 – Interview customers to determine current issues 1-2.2 – Meet with industry groups to determine market trends 1-2.3 – Determine if product can be sold for profit * – Concept Feasibility 1-3...
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...Vision Tech is developing a new Vision system for Pharmaceutical companies which will save countless lives. The objective of this technology is to inspect drug labels to ensure they contain the proper information to meet the ever evolving governmental standards. This technology is a high resolution camera and the product development process for the same is explained by a Work Breakdown Structure which will be essential in developing and designing the product from concept to development. The Project team will ensure that new product development process is going through the right stages and we will continue the process by gathering the requirements for the project and analyze them with the help of Marketing, Research & Development and design/testing team. The following Work Breakdown structure is created and developed after meeting and discussing the product concept and design with Marketing Director, Kara Rose and R& D Director, Jessie Megana. The WBS will give a breakdown of activities involved in the product development process. These activities will be carried on until we reach the selling phase. WBS WBS 5.0 Sales 5.0 Sales 4.0 Development/IT 4.0 Development/IT 3.0 Design 3.0 Design 2.0 R & D 2.0 R & D 1.0 Marketing 1.0 Marketing 1.1 Market Feasibility 2.1 Concept Feasibility 3.1 Analyze ...
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...work breakdown structure A WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS) IS A DECOMPOSITION OF ALL THE WORK NECESSARY TO COMPLETE A PROJECT. A WBS IS ARRANGED IN A HIERARCHY AND CONSTRUCTED TO ALLOW FOR CLEAR AND LOGICAL GROUPINGS, EITHER BY ACTIVITIES OR DELIVERABLES. THE WBS SHOULD REPRESENT THE WORK IDENTIFIED IN THE APPROVED PROJECT SCOPE STATEMENT AND SERVES AS AN EARLY FOUNDATION FOR EFFECTIVE SCHEDULE DEVELOPMENT AND COST ESTIMATING. PROJECT MANAGERS TYPICALLY WILL DEVELOP A WBS AS A PRECURSOR TO A DETAILED PROJECT SCHEDULE. THE WBS SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY A WBS DICTIONARY, WHICH LISTS AND DEFINES WBS ELEMENTS. The goals of developing a WBS and WBS Dictionary are 1) for the project team to proactively and logically plan out the project to completion, 2) to collect the information about work that needs to be done for a project, and 3) to organize activities into manageable components that will achieve project objectives. The WBS and WBS Dictionary are not the schedule, but rather the building blocks to it. The progression of WBS and WBS Dictionary development is as follows: [pic] The WBS and WBS Dictionary should not be static documents. WBS construction is subject to project management progressive elaboration, and as new information becomes known, the WBS should be revised to reflect that information. A Project Team that has substantial changes to its WBS should reference the project’s Change Management Plan for guidance on management of changes to project scope. Example...
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...the Baseline January 21st, 2013 Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Technology Centre for the Built Environment PROJECT MANAGEMENT- ENVIRONMENT GRADUATE CERTIFICATE 1 Today’s Agenda • • • • • Review and case assignments for Tutorial 1 due today Textbook status Cover material for Tutorial 2 Begin to work on review and case assignments for Tutorial 2 Next week: complete review and case assignments for Tutorial 2 • Tutorial 2 assignments are due next Monday, January 28 2 Tutorial 2: Creating a Project Schedule Microsoft Project 2010 ® In Tutorial Section 2.1 you will: • • • • • • Start a new project Examine scheduling defaults Change a project and task calendar Enter and edit tasks and durations Enter and edit recurring tasks and milestones Enter lag and lead times New Perspectives on Microsoft Project 2010 4 In Tutorial Section 2.2 you will: • • • • • • Enter and edit task dependencies View project statistics Show the project summary Review project statistics Create and manipulate summary tasks Develop a work breakdown structure New Perspectives on Microsoft Project 2010 5 Scheduling • By default, the new project file is scheduled from a project Start date • All tasks are scheduled to begin as soon as possible • Project 2010 calculates the project’s Finish date based on the: – Tasks – Durations – Dependencies New Perspectives on Microsoft Project 2010 6 Project Information...
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...SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Applications Development Project Sample WBS Management and support Provide project management Provide quality control Conduct meetings and reviews Materials and supplies Travel and living costs Miscellaneous costs Consulting fees and subcontractor costs Contingency Systems development Requirements specifications Conduct information-gathering sessions Prepare logical data model Prepare logical process model Physical design Prepare physical data model Prepare physical process model Online system Prepare detailed design Program and unit test Document Batch system Prepare detailed design Batch update facility Program and unit test Document Reporting system Program and unit test Document Integration Prepare integration plan System integration and test Integrate batch update and reporting system Conduct systems test on batch systems Integrate batch and online systems Conduct systems test on complete system Prepare user documentation Customer Conduct milestone reviews Review and approve deliverables Conduct user training Acceptance testing Page 1 Printed on: January 27, 2010 SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES VARIOUS TYPES OF PROJECT Prepare acceptance tests Conduct acceptance tests Prepare revisions from acceptance tests Hand over to customer Implementation Prepare implementation plan Provide support for implementation Conduct post-implementation review Page 2 Printed on: January 27, 2010 SAMPLE WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURES...
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...of the scope of the project which include the schedule, cost, facilities, team and risk management. The quality program should guide each process to ensure that the customer’s demands are able to be met. This will ensure that all of the processes are goal oriented to the customer’s needs. The process that the VW Mexico Team utilized was to develop a work breakdown structure (WBS). This structure integrated the plans submitted by various project participants and detailed the timeline for the overall project. As a quality control individual I would utilize the WBS as a structure to integrate a quality control program that would be based on Volkswagen’s expectations of it’s component assembly for the new Jetta. This program that is developed for the project will begin with obtaining information of the quality policy and procedures, customer expectations, the project scope statement and the WBS. As the case study explains, the project that VW Mexico is undertaking is to produce several motor and axle parts and assemblies that include the front axles and cornermodule assemblies. During the scope of this project, the WBS was developed and provided the detailed timeline for the overall project. The quality program will include specifications of targets for the parts and assemblies. It will also address tolerances or allowable variations for these as well. These specifications and variations must be formally addressed and approved to ensure that customer expectations are...
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... 5518373 HASMIM FAHAD JALAL JISHAN 5628006 Submitted to A. Victoria Vlada Trebesh Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics Assumption University TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Work breakdown structure Activity-on-node (AON) project scope checklist responsibility matrix conclusion reference APPENDICES 1. Tournament agenda 2. Gantt chart 3. Network diagram 4. Tournament venue LIST OF FIGURES FIGURES Page 1 Project Priority Matrix 2 Work Breakdown Structure EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report analyses and states how the University Football Championship, which will be held at Assumption University football fields, Assumption University Suvarnabhumi Campus from the 27th - 29th of April 2016, is going to be conducted. The main purpose of the report is to fulfill the requirement of the course MGT3915: Project Management. The project report includes the detail information of the tournament, project work breakdown structure (WBS), Gantt chart and Network diagram to show the flow of work and amount of time to complete organizing the tournament, project scope checklist, and project matrixes such as project priority matrix and responsibility matrix. INTRoduction University Football Championship ...
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...By Jeffrey K. Pinto CHAPTER FIVE PROJECT PROFILE — Airbus A380: Plane of the Future or Enormous White Elephant? Introduction 5.1 CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT The Statement of Work 5.2 THE SCOPE STATEMENT The Work Breakdown Structure Purpose of the Work Breakdown Structure The Organization Breakdown Structure The Responsibility Assignment Matrix 5.3 WORK AUTHORIZATION 5.4 SCOPE REPORTING Project Management Research in Brief: IT Project Failure – Burying Our Heads in the Sand 5.5 CONTROL SYSTEMS Configuration Management 5.6 PROJECT CLOSEOUT Summary Key Terms Discussion Questions Problems Case Study 5.1: Calcutta’s Metro Case Study 5.2: Project Management at Dotcom.com Cas Study 5.3: Runaway Scope – The Bradley Fighting Vehicle Internet Exercises MSProject Exercises Integrated Project – Developing the Work Breakdown Structure Bibliography TRANSPARENCIES 5.1 ELEMENTS IN PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT 1. Conceptual Development - Problem statement - Information gathering - Constraints - Alternative analysis - Project objectives - Statement of Work (SOW) 2. Scope Statement - Goal criteria - Management plan - Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - Scope baseline - Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) 3. Work Authorization - Contractual requirements - Valid consideration - Contracted terms 5.1 ELEMENTS IN PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT (Con’d) 4. Scope Reporting - Cost, Schedule, Technical...
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