Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure: Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules
Help Your Team Visualize the Right Path to Success Most people do not truly understand a concept until they can visualize it. This applies to all fields, including Project Management. The best way to effectively manage projects is to help your team visualize the end result as well as the steps ne...
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oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-16022009-12-04T02:19:02Z Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure: Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules Miller, Dennis Help Your Team Visualize the Right Path to Success Most people do not truly understand a concept until they can visualize it. This applies to all fields, including Project Management. The best way to effectively manage projects is to help your team visualize the end result as well as the steps needed to achieve that result. Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure: Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules employs a diagram approach to project planning and scheduling. This useful tool empowers business professionals to take control of and successfully communicate their projects, ensuring they are completed on time with their targeted impact. Step-By-Step Advancement Industry professional Dennis P. Miller, a consultant to leading Fortune 500 companies, thoroughly explains the keys to an effective Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through an Eight Step Process. He has refined this process over a period of twenty years, applying it to over 100 projects ranging from software development to social events. The Eight Step Process starts with a concentrated effort to define the project through its deliverables. The middle steps walk the project team through a process of activity definition and sequencing and resource assignment. Finally, the last steps involve estimating the duration and verifying the project timeline. Not Just What to Do, But How to Do It! This is a hands-on volume that includes a practice section for each of the eight steps, providing readers with real examples of how the author has successfully applied this process. The result of its application is a visualization of the project’s objectives, deliverables, activities, and schedules. Over 130 illustrations enrich the instructions. Project managers are assured of success by following the simple tools in this unique and comprehensive volume. OPENING A little background on the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Misinterpretations developed through time Current accepted practice Organization of the book by parts PART ONE Preplanning Issues Sources of Deliverables Timing of planning session Specific preparations PART TWO Step One – Find the project’s deliverables Step Two -- Build and review the initial Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) Step Three – building down the PBS Step Four – Establishing the activities Step Five – Building the physical logical diagram (the Network) Step Six --- Assigning the resources Step Seven – Estimate the durations Step Eight – Verify the project timeline PART THREE Second Pass Manual Scheduling Tracking and reporting Resource Allocation PART FOUR Let’s Practice – Case Study Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Essay Index 2009-12-04T02:19:02Z 2009-12-04T02:19:02Z 2008 Book http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/1602 en application/rar CRC Press |
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Help Your Team Visualize the Right Path to Success
Most people do not truly understand a concept until they can visualize it. This applies to all fields, including Project Management. The best way to effectively manage projects is to help your team visualize the end result as well as the steps needed to achieve that result.
Building a Project Work Breakdown Structure: Visualizing Objectives, Deliverables, Activities, and Schedules employs a diagram approach to project planning and scheduling. This useful tool empowers business professionals to take control of and successfully communicate their projects, ensuring they are completed on time with their targeted impact.
Step-By-Step Advancement
Industry professional Dennis P. Miller, a consultant to leading Fortune 500 companies, thoroughly explains the keys to an effective Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through an Eight Step Process. He has refined this process over a period of twenty years, applying it to over 100 projects ranging from software development to social events. The Eight Step Process starts with a concentrated effort to define the project through its deliverables. The middle steps walk the project team through a process of activity definition and sequencing and resource assignment. Finally, the last steps involve estimating the duration and verifying the project timeline.
Not Just What to Do, But How to Do It!
This is a hands-on volume that includes a practice section for each of the eight steps, providing readers with real examples of how the author has successfully applied this process. The result of its application is a visualization of the project’s objectives, deliverables, activities, and schedules. Over 130 illustrations enrich the instructions. Project managers are assured of success by following the simple tools in this unique and comprehensive volume. |
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