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    A work-breakdown structure (WBS) in project management and systems engineering is a breakdown of a project into smaller components. It is a key project...
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  • In project management under the PRINCE2 methodology, a product breakdown structure (PBS) is a tool for analysing, documenting and communicating the outcomes...
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  • A Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) within risk management is a hierarchically organised depiction of the identified project risks arranged by category....
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  • Risk breakdown structure (RBS),  Risk management technique Value breakdown structure (VBS),  Project management technique Work breakdown structure (WBS)...
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  • of scientific management. His work is the forerunner to modern project management tools including work breakdown structure (WBS) and resource allocation...
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  • analysis. The concept has similarities with the deliverable-oriented work breakdown structure (WBS) decomposition which is used in project management and systems...
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    organigram, organogram, or organizational breakdown structure (OBS), is a diagram that shows the structure of an organization and the relationships and...
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  • used to facilitate planning and controlling of project work. The Resource Breakdown Structure includes, at a minimum, the personnel resources needed for...
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    and control a substantial SDLC initiative, a work breakdown structure (WBS) captures and schedules the work. The WBS and all programmatic material should...
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  • contract. Guidance in MIL-STD-881 and MIL-HDBK-245 says that a work breakdown structure should be used in developing the SOW. This may use the WBS as an...
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    For the subdivision of work units in PERT another tool was developed: the Work Breakdown Structure. The Work Breakdown Structure provides "a framework...
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    HIPO Structured Analysis and Design Technique Warnier/Orr diagram Work breakdown structure Sandia National Laboratories (1992). Sandia Software Guidelines...
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  • presented the work breakdown structure (WBS) to dissolve projects into even smaller visual units, organizing them in a hierarchical tree structure. WBS was...
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  • on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) popular in the project management discipline. Like the WBS, project goals exhibit a hierarchical structure. The highest-level...
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    pyramid selling scheme Project management: work breakdown structure Linguistics: (Syntax) Phrase structure trees (Historical Linguistics) Tree model of...
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    required to complete the project (typically categorized within a work breakdown structure) The time (duration) that each activity will take to complete The...
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  • Budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS) the approved budget that has been allocated to complete a scheduled task (or Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) component)...
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  • schedule may be closely related to the work breakdown structure (WBS) terminal elements, the Statement of work, or a Contract Data Requirements List....
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    which a project’s activities are to be completed. Derived from the work breakdown structure, the terminal elements of a project are organized sequentially...
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  • unique to project management such as critical path method and work breakdown structure (WBS). The PMBOK Guide also overlaps with general management regarding...
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    project. Terminal elements and summary elements constitute the work breakdown structure of the project. Modern Gantt charts also show the dependency (i...
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  • buffers. A project plan or work breakdown structure (WBS) is created in much the same fashion as with critical path. The plan is worked backward from a completion...
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    context, project activities should support project task breakdown (also known as work breakdown structure), task allocation, inventory across projects, and...
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  • resource, financial and quality plans (i.e. how it will be achieved) work breakdown structure and schedule (i.e. when it will be achieved) TORs could include:...
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    graph only (not PERT technique) Resource breakdown structure (RBS) chart Task usage reports Work breakdown structure (WBS) chart Compared to Microsoft Project...
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  • limitations". A project may be a temporary (rather than a permanent) social system (work system), possibly staffed by teams (within or across organizations) to accomplish...
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  • case analysis Partition of a set for a mathematical treatment Work breakdown structure for application in project management Algebraic data type in programming...
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  • (left-hand column) of tasks (from a work breakdown structure) or deliverables (from a product breakdown structure), and a horizontal axis (top row) of...
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  • that the core Jira lacks, i.e. roadmap, a Gantt chart, Scope (work breakdown structure), risks, resources and teams modules. BigPicture is web-based software...
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    The IMP provides a better structure than either the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) or Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) for measuring actual integrated...
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