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Software Project Management Mandeep Kaur, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 3: Work Breakdown Structure

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

3.1 Uses for the WBS
3.2 Generating the WBS
3.2.1 Top-down Approach

3.2.2 Bottom-up Approach
3.3 Criteria to Test for Completeness in the WBS
3.4 Using a Joint Project Planning Session to Build the WBS
3.5 Approaches to Building the WBS
3.5.1 Noun-type Approaches

3.5.2 Verb-type Approaches
3.5.3 Organizational Approaches
3.6 Representing the WBS

3.7 Summary
3.8 Keywords
3.9 Review Questions
3.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

 Discuss the Work Breakdown Structure
 Explain the approaches to building the Work Breakdown Structure

 Determine which of the approaches to use for generating the Work Breakdown Structure
for a given project
 Generate a complete Work Breakdown Structure

 Use a Joint Project Planning session to generate a Work Breakdown Structure
 Explain top-down versus bottom-up processes for building the Work Breakdown Structure
in the Joint Project Planning session

Introduction

In this unit we will study about the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). WBS is a hierarchical
description of the work that must be done to complete the project. Several processes can be used
to create this hierarchy, which we discuss in this unit.

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