
574 Quality management for organizations using Lean Six Sigma techniques
29.5.1 Work breakdown structure
The work breakdown structure (WBS) is a descriptive document on the constitution of
the project and the assigned responsibilities for each work group. Each responsibility
is converted to a string of activities and further broken down to subtasks or elements
that are set to motion by a team. From subtask to activity, each element has an associ-
ated time frame that should be exible enough to accommodate variations that occur
during implementation. Interrelationships between predecessor events and the follow-
ing events are to be streamlined ...