Book description
The work breakdown structure (WBS) is an essential component of the planning process of all project types, whether external or internal facing, regardless of industry or discipline. The WBS organizes the total scope of a project and reflects the work specified for the approved project scope. The WBS serves as an essential tool for the project team to overcome large project uncertainties.
The WBS is a key input to the project's schedule, budget, risk, and performance tracking and serves as a cross-discipline foundation upon which to report project status and progress in a unified and standard manner. The WBS also functions as a mechanism to balance management’s need for control through the appropriate level-of-detail representation.
As a comprehensive update to the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Second Edition, the third edition applies the WBS to the predictive, iterative, incremental, and agile project life cycles; it also explores several different types of decomposition in practice today.
The Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Third Edition aligns with other recent PMI standards, including A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition. This practice standard provides practitioners with a useful tool to create a valuable, high-quality WBS for portfolios, programs, or projects.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Notice
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- 1. Introduction to the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures
- 2. Concepts and Principles
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3. Relationships, Integration, and Context
- 3.1. Overview
- 3.2. Interaction with Other Standards
- 3.3. Creating the WBS
- 3.4. Summary
- 4. WBS Quality
- 5. WBS Application and Usage
- References
- Bibliography
- Appendix X1. The Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Third Edition Changes
- Appendix X2. Contributors and Reviewers of the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Third Edition
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Appendix X3. The Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Third Edition Examples
- X3.1. Production Platform Project Example
- X3.2. Bioventing Test Project Example
- X3.3. New Compound Development Project Example
- X3.4. Process Plant Construction Project Example
- X3.5. Outsourcing Project Example
- X3.6. Web Design Project Example
- X3.7. Telecommunications Project Example
- X3.8. Design-Bid-Build Project Example
- X3.9. Software Implementation Project Example
- X3.10. International Car School Competition Project Example
- X3.11. Subway Line Program 1 Project Example
- X3.12. Subway Line Program 2 Project Example
- X3.13. Subway Line Program 3 Project Example
- Glossary
Product information
- Title: Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures - Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2019
- Publisher(s): Project Management Institute
- ISBN: 9781628256192
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