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Unit 3: Work Breakdown Structure

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
11. The .................................... is a hierarchical description of the work that must be done to
complete the project as defined in the Project Overview Statement (POS).

12. A .................................... is a complete description of how the tasks that make up an activity
will actually be done.
13. Breaking down work into a hierarchy of activities, tasks, and work packages is called
....................................
14. ....................................approach and .................................... approach are the two variations of
the top-down approach.
15. There are .................................... general approaches to building the WBS.

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Case Study Blogs are designed for People who don’t want to learn

Get online. Create your blog. Grow your own business.

These are the mantras that Andy Wibbels offers in Blogwild! from Nicholas Brealey
(www.nbrealey-books.com). “Blogwild is for businesses and entrepreneurs who have
heard about blogs, know that there’s something special going on, but aren’t quite sure
what the big deal is,” notes the introduction. So, first, `what is a blog?’
Short for Web log; it is an online diary, explains the author. “For the elegant simplicity
and beauty that blogs create, they certainly have an ugly, ungainly name,” he says.
Blawg (the way it is pronounced) sounds like “some kind of gurgling sound your cat
makes prior to coughing up a giant hairball.”
Yuk! But wait. “Blogs are designed for people who don’t want to learn (or don’t have the
time to learn).” It is as simple as sending an e-mail, entices the author, before giving his
updated description of blog thus: “An easily, instantly, and frequently updated Website,
focussed around a topic, industry, or personality.”

Start reading blogs, exhorts Wibbels, because that’s “the easiest way to get acquainted
with the conversations of the blog format”.
Gradually, you’d pick up new words. Such as: ‘blogosphere’, which is ‘the collective hive
of blogs’; and ‘blogroll’, which is a list of the blogger’s favourite blogs and Websites.
Get to know how to use blog search engines and directories such as Blogwise, Blogarama
and Globe of Blogs.
‘Blog ecosystems’ are sites that monitor millions of blogs every minute of every day,
“searching for the top key words being mentioned in blog posts or the most popular links,
books, movies, and people.”
Examples are Blogdex, IceRocket, BlogPulse and Technorati. Wibbels likens visiting these
sites to “being in a huge conventional hall eavesdropping on millions of conversations at
the same time.” A fantastic way to do market research and to see what’s buzzing, he says.
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