Course Scope


WBS (perhaps 50% lectures & 50% practical/case study)


Who should Attend


Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Team Members and Project Supports from MSC Malaysia Status Companies


Workshop Agenda

Class Exercise (45 minutes) Establishing the need for planning the project

  • Makes sense to plan ahead – improve project results substantially
  • Reasons offered for not having a Formal Project Plan
  • Explaining why we need a good quality plan to shape a project as opposed to reacting to project events
  • Pointers for starting Project Plan development
  • Introduction – benefits and challenges of developing
    a good work breakdown structure
  • The goals for a WBS
  • Advantages of a WBS
  • WBS preliminaries
  • Purpose of the Work Break Structure
  • Explaining why creating the WBS should be a team
    effort - tangible benefits from the WBS for the team
    and the project
  • Why create the WBS – manage delegation – subdivide major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components - “divide & conquer”
  • What are Work Packages
  • WBS process as defined by the PMBOK®
  • What is Project Decomposition?
  • Explaining levels in a WBS – explosion of work packages into activities and subtasks
  • Explaining the Decomposition Methodology
  • WBS Components - Product Breakdown Structure & Task Breakdown Structure
  • Steps for Product, Service and Result WBS
  • Additional Hints for the WBS development - Handout – WBS Checklist
  • The WBS Dictionary - Handout – WBS Dictionary sample
  • Where a WBS fits into a project’s scheme
  • Specific advantages of creating and using a WBS
  • Methods to Explode a WBS for Product, Service and Result
  • Configuration & Content of the WBS
  • Quality and WBS
  • Breaking Down Your Project
  • Major Deliverables to Major Tasks
  • Major Tasks to Tasks
  • Scope Check
  • Task Owners – How to assign owners to work packages/project tasks
  • Completion Criteria
  • Entry/Exit Criteria
  • Project Management Software
  • Task Details
  • Functional and Technical Requirements
  • Some Tools for WBS e.g. WBS Chart Pro, PMI Practice Guide for WBS
  • Conclusion of the discussion
  • Quiz on WBS
  • Practical Session – Creating a WBS for Simple project (Group Exercise)