CHAPTER 4From Requirements to Scope to the Work Breakdown Structure

This chapter focuses on capturing your customer’s requirements and translating them into the artifacts needed to create the deliverables. A best practice is to create three key documents: the requirements document, scope statement, and work breakdown structure (WBS).

The following Q&As detail how to create these outputs and the supporting documents that will help you work with them. Templates are provided to make it very quick and easy to learn to use the documents.

Many readers have told me they were able to start using these templates very quickly on their projects with excellent results. Quite a few of my students have let me know that practicing with these templates also ...

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