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What is WBS(Work Breakdown Structure)?

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Question added by Wasim Khalil Mustafa Ali PMP® , Consultant , Malomatia
Date Posted: 2013/11/27
Khaled Alhassoun
by Khaled Alhassoun , Consulting Management - Senior manager , Price waterhouse Coopers

 WBA organizes the necessary work by decomposing it into smaller, manageable pieces that can be scheduled, cost-estimated, monitored, and controlled

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

WBS is a list of related tasks to perform a task. For each task you usually define duration, relationship with other tasks, & resources required to perform the task.

Mohamed Sulaiman
by Mohamed Sulaiman , Site Project Manager , Al tabarak for Engineering & Contracting company

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. It organizes and defines the total scope of the project. Each descending level represents an increasingly detailed definition of the project work. The WBS is decomposed into work packages. The deliverable orientation of the hierarchy includes both internal and external deliverables.

Raafat Sallam
by Raafat Sallam , Organizational Development and Training Consultant , Training Centers, Marketing Organizations.

WBS is the decomposition of the amount of work begining by the project title ending by the most lower leveles (activities) or work packages according to the size and complexity of the project.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

WBS allows the decomposition of an activity into smaller tasks, that are useful for duration evaluation, performance improvement and cost control. This breakdown is also needed to identify responsabilities for each task, and to calculate the critical path.

A WBS is a detailed plan of your project work, including what phases are required in the

work and what tasks are needed within each phase. It focuses on deliverables that need to

be produced. It also helps for cost estimation, cost budgeting, resource planning, planning risk

management and defining activities to be completed. It helps in visualizing the tasks that needs to be finished before another task. 

Keegan Sequeira
by Keegan Sequeira , Independent Contractor – Website Design and Content Management , Marvin Jeter, Education Consultant / Ice House Alley Warehouses / A Grand Affair

In the simplest of explanations, a Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a graphical diagram used to depict the hierarchical decomposition of the project into phases, activities, and tasks.

 

hatem labib
by hatem labib , Quality control manager , MISER consultant

WBS is a chart that shows the logical sequence of tasks from the beginning to the end of the project, which also defines the relationship of tasks to each otherit also determines the time required for each task and therefore the total time of the project

Joefil C. Jocson
by Joefil C. Jocson , CEO/President , Dyas Construction and Management Consultants

WBS is a heirarchical or incremental decomposition of works into more detailed and smaller items, phases, packages etc usually necessary in Quantity Surveying, in SAP, ERP etc. to ensure completeness of each and every details of the project, product, data etc.

mohamed sabeen
by mohamed sabeen , QHSE Manager , Novus catering service

A grouping of project elements, organized in a hierarchical tree structure. It defines the total scope of the project at the highest level in the tree and each descending level provides an increasingly granular definition of each element.

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