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Building A Project Work Breakdown Structure—Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules

Building A Project Work Breakdown Structure: Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules

by Dennis P. Miller

2009 (262 pages)

ISBN:9781420069693

Providing an eight-step process that facilitates the development of the work breakdown structure (WBS), this resource not only shows readers what they can do, but shows them how to do it.

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Building A Project Work Breakdown Structure—Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules
Preface	-	Why, How, and What I Developed
Opening
Section I - Preplanning Activities and Issues
Chapter 1	-	Preplanning Issues
Chapter 2	-	Sources of Deliverables
Chapter 3	-	Timing of Planning Session
Chapter 4	-	Specific Preparations
Section II - Executing the Eight Step Process
Chapter 5	-	Step 1—Find the Project’s Deliverables
Chapter 6	-	Step 2—Build and Review the Initial Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
Chapter 7	-	Step 3—Building Down the PBS
Chapter 8	-	Step 4—Establishing the Activities
Chapter 9	-	Step 5—Building the Physical Logical Diagram (The Network)
Chapter 10	-	Step 6—Assigning the Resources
Chapter 11	-	Step 7—Estimate the Durations
Chapter 12	-	Step 8—Verify the Project Timeline
Section III - Post-Planning Activities
Chapter 13	-	Second Pass
Chapter 14	-	Manual Scheduling
Chapter 15	-	Scheduled Network
Chapter 16	-	Tracking and Reporting
Chapter 17	-	Resource Allocation
Section IV - Some Basic Project Management Issues
Chapter 18	-	Let’s Practice—Case Study Summary
Chapter 19	-	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Chapter 20	-	Essay—The WBS — Worth a Second Look