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What is the WBS in Project management and what is it used for?

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Question added by Ghada Sameer , Project Manager and media executive , CQA
Date Posted: 2014/03/30
Mustaque Ali
by Mustaque Ali , Program Manager , Independent Program Management Consultant

Work breakdown structure (WBS) is a chart in which the project is broken down to simpler and manageable tasks. 

 

This will be displayed graphically which will help to visualize all the components involved in the project and also understand the dependencies between the tasks.