5
WBS APPLICATION AND USAGE
5.1 OVERVIEW
5.1.1 SECTION OVERVIEW
This section discusses how to apply and use a WBS, as well as some considerations during WBS development and evolution. The subsections of this section present guides for use during the WBS development process, while some subsections serve as informal checklists for the development and refinement of the WBS.
There are many ways to create a WBS. Development of the WBS occurs entirely as a new document, built by leveraging components from existing work breakdown structures, based on a template, or following pre-defined WBS standards. When reusing existing components, the sources of WBS elements come from similar projects or from standard project templates that the organization determines ...
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