ePM Training Services » Project Managememt Tools http://www.empowerpm.com/blog Empowering the Project Manager Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:42:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) – What is it and why is it so important? (3 of 3) http://www.empowerpm.com/blog/2010/06/17/the-work-breakdown-structure-wbs-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-so-important-3-of-3/ http://www.empowerpm.com/blog/2010/06/17/the-work-breakdown-structure-wbs-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-so-important-3-of-3/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:58:44 +0000 Peter http://www.empowerpm.com/blog/?p=352 In this final part of the series on creating your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) we present a checklist of good practices and things you should look out for when preparing your next WBS. If you can answer ‘yes’ to most of these questions, then you’re well on the way to becoming a skilled creator of Work Breakdown Structures.

Here we go:

  1. Did you create the WBS with the assistance of your project team?
  2. Has the entire scope of the project been included?
  3. Are there complete deliverables in the WBS?
  4. Is each deliverable unique?
  5. Does the WBS have the right level of detail?
  6. Are milestones included?
  7. Have you included project management activities?
  8. Have you included risk mitigation tasks?
  9. Have you identified an owner for every task?
  10. Have you used a simple verb-noun format to describe the tasks?
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