Work breakdown structure (or WBS) is a hierarchical tree structure that outlines your project and breaks it down into smaller, more manageable portions. The goal of a WBS is to make a large project more manageable. Breaking it down into smaller chunks means work can be done simultaneously by different team members, leading to better team productivity and easier project management overall¹. Creating WBS enables to have accurate assignments of responsibilities to the project team, it indicates of project milestones and control points, allows to estimate the cost, time and risk, and also, illustrates the project scope.

            Basically, WBS has a necessary role for attaining success in project management because as I mentioned above it serves many advantages whi ... Read more »

Imagine that you have a company and want to do your job the most efficiently. As we know each project has dozens of details and fields. Let’s compare two situations:

1. You want to build a building and you arrange only one worker for this task. This worker has to work on all the fields and this is obvious that this is not efficient way of managing the project. Because of wasting time during this period, you will also lose money.
2. In the other case, you arrange enough workers for all fields and save time and money. Before starting any project, project manager has to plan everything detail by detail and divide into different parts.

This is called WBS. A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is used for breaking down a project into easily manageable components, or bites. Here we'll break dow ... Read more »