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	"D-LCC LCC Software and Solutions" at Reliass - Reliability and Safety Software Company
		Life Cycle Cost is defined by using a supplied or creating a new Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and allocating cost variables to each CBS primary element.
		Product Tree Cost Calculation option allows for incorporating the Product Tree parameters in LCC model and calculating any required cost elements (like spare parts cost for each Level of Repair) across all Product Tree items.
		Product names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
	www.reliability-safety-software.com /products/product_dlcc.htm (665 words)

	Work breakdown structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In project management, a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is an exhaustive, hierarchical (from general to specific) tree structure of deliverables and tasks that need to be performed to complete a project.
		The Work Breakdown Structure is a very common and critical project management tool.
		It is much easier for a team to work together using sticky notes and a large empty wall than for the same team to cram themselves in front of a tiny computer monitor and one keyboard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Work_breakdown_structure (675 words)

	Product breakdown structure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In project management, a product breakdown structure (PBS) is an exhaustive, hierarchical tree structure of components that make up a project deliverable, arranged in whole-part relationship.
		A PBS can help clarify what is to be delivered by the project and can help build a work breakdown structure.
		The PRINCE2 project management method mandates the use of product based planning, part of which is developing a product breakdown structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Product_breakdown_structure (108 words)

	Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.1
		The project's product or objectives consists of components, at several levels of breakdown, each of which deliver parts of the functionality of the project's deliverables.
		A structure that identifies the Products that are required and that must be produced.
		A hierarchy of deliverable products which are required to be produced on the project.
	maxwideman.com /pmglossary/PMG_P06.htm (1325 words)

	IBM Software - ENOVIA Product Definition (PDC) - Add-on Overview
		Technical-oriented design managers can utilize the component editor and zone editor to define a product "work organization" that is based on components (engine, body, electrical, etc) or zones (geometrical areas in a digital mock-up), a practice that is common in many manufacturing industries.
		Product family structure and product breakdowns can be defined prior to doing any product design, so that overall functions and features can be determined and organised at the start of the project.
		A product planner can segment a product by requirements such as electrical, mechanical or even cost factors prior to the creation or association of any specific geometry.
	www-306.ibm.com /software/applications/plm/enovia/prods/pdc (487 words)

	:: Product Breakdown Structure - CC Consulting PRINCE2
		The Product Breakdown Structure graphically represents the relationship between the products and sub-products in a project.
		Subsequent products represented are called intermediate products and represent the major specialist products of each product group.
		Product Breakdown Structures are included in the Project Plan, Stage Plan the Team Plan and Work Package.
	www.crazycolour.com /p2/?title=Product_Breakdown_Structure (484 words)

	Integrated Product Development Implementation Guide - Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center
		Integrated Product Development is a philosophy that systematically employs a teaming of functional disciplines to integrate and concurrently apply all necessary processes to produce an effective and efficient product that satisfies customer's needs.
		The product's customers and suppliers should be members of the team to ensure that product requirements are understood and properly flowed to lower tier organizations.
		One of the fundamental tenets of IPD is product orientation where all activities in the program are focused on the products that are actually delivered to the operator.
	www.fas.org /spp/military/docops/smc/ipdsmc.htm (9443 words)

	Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.1
		The project's product or objectives consists of components, at several levels of breakdown, each of which deliver parts of the functionality of the project's deliverables.
		A structure that identifies the Products that are required and that must be produced.
		A hierarchy of deliverable products which are required to be produced on the project.
	www.maxwideman.com /pmglossary/PMG_P06.htm (1325 words)

	PRINCE2 Training and Project Management Training, Consulting and Audit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Product Based Planning is a key feature of Prince2, providing a focus on the products to be delivered and their quality.
		This is a deliverable oriented, heirarchical structure (which is often termed a Work Breakdown Structure in non-Prince2 projects) which seeks to define the entire scope of the project as a set of products.
		The third element, the Product Flow Diagram shows the sequence of development of the Products in the PBS, helping to ensure that all items are identified in the scope and assisting in the development of project, stage and activity plans.
	www.projectperformance.co.uk /tour/prince2_component_13.htm (230 words)

	Project Management Glossary
		one product may be made up of several other 'dependent' products; one activity or task may not be started until a 'dependent' task has been completed; one resource such as an office may not be used without a 'dependent' resource such as a receptionist.
		Work Breakdown Structure(WBS) or Product Breakdown Structure is a way of representing the hierarchy of work products to show their dependencies and relationships, and sometimes their sources.
		The relationships or dependencies are shown in the form of a work breakdown structure or product breakdown structure.
	www.ibt.co.uk /transformation/pmg/gloss.htm (801 words)

	Product-based Planning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Product Breakdown Structure is first developed for the Project Plan to identify the major deliverables and control points.
		By giving careful consideration to what the product should contain, and how it will be tested, the project team can ensure that there is detailed consideration of every product.
		The Product Descriptions are produced in consultation with the end users and must be agreed before any work commences.
	members.aol.com /sianti/cbt/TechPlan.html (464 words)

	Route Map Stage 8 - Product Based Planning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At this stage description of the main products are created, alongside the skills required to develop these products.
		The product description provides detailed information about the expected quality of the product and is subject to change control if required.
		The Product Flow Diagram arises from the Product Breakdown Structure.
	www.edemocracy.gov.uk /toolkit/rma19.htm (235 words)

	Shipbuilding Pictures Database
		They represent a corpus of structured know-how describing the best of the state-of-the practiced art of shipbuilding (by IHI) which is without equal.
		The productivity improvement predicted was not realized because the archaic system-by-system shipbuilding approach remained unchanged.
		An orthogonal pipe unit is shown which is one of seven having pipes organized in parallel and sharing common supports, and which is painted except for the finish coat.
	nsnet.com /shippicsP/view.php?searchcat=02&...&Submit=Start+Search (1084 words)

	NWCG IRM-PMO Project Management Glossary - Pri-Proi
		The Product Description should be used as the basis for acceptance of the product by the customer.
		A project in which the major value of the product of the project is the result of professional, i.e.
		Examples include product and economic development programmes where the programmes follow a concept/design life cycle before moving into the implementation of multiple projects or production units.
	www.nwcg.gov /teams/pmo/products/pmglossary/Pri.htm (4770 words)

	Control project completion. Introduction to Project Management skills.
		You may well have produced your product to the correct specification, on time (see 'The Complete Time management package'), within budget and to the right performance and quality criteria but is the customer happy with it?
		It could be that there has been some serious breakdown in communication along the way.
		It is advisable for the Project team to carry out a post mortem to try and measure the success of the project, decide on any further areas of work and determine what aspects need to be improved for additional projects.
	www.project-management-basics.com /control-16.shtml (585 words)

	Pursuit of a product work breakdown structure (PWBS) - The Afterguard
		As a consequence, the projects initially assigned to Panel SP-2 by the traditionalists in the SPC were mostly hardware oriented.
		The specification we produced required application to ships and end products other than ships, it defined interim products, and it required their classification per the problems inherent in their manufacture as needed to create effective work flows.
		In the context of my experience in production planning, I was very impressed at their ability to so organize the work and to beat the socks off of us in terms of time and cost to produce a ship.
	blog.nsnet.com /index.php?itemid=2879 (1777 words)

	project management, project work, product breakdown structure, write product descriptions
		In project management, a product is a physical entity that is created as a result of project work.
		The injection of specialist products into the organization or its environment should be both a necessary and a sufficient condition to bring about changes resulting in achieving project objectives.
		To develop a better understanding of project's products, one can construct a product breakdown structure or write product descriptions.
	www.artrm.com /retail/project-management.htm (122 words)

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		A work product is an abstraction for descriptions of content elements that are used to define anything used, produced, or modified by a task.
		For some Work Products state is expressed in percentage of completion, compliance to work product checklist, informal state descriptions, etc. Others have very specific states expressed as enumerations such as [identified, briefly described, outlined, detailed] for use cases.
		For example, the breakdown structure defines which Breakdown Elements have multiple occurrences or is repeatable via it respective attributes, but does not say how many occurrences and how many repeats/iterations it will have.
	www.eclipse.org /epf/tool_component/EPF_Schema_200604281800.xsd (9175 words)

	Work breakdown structure (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In project management, a work breakdown structure (WBS) is an exhaustive, hierarchical (from general to specific) tree structure of tasks[?] or deliverables[?] that need to be performed in order for a project to be completed.
		The purpose of a WBS is to identify terminal elements[?] (the actual items to be done in a project).
		Work breakdown structure is a very common project managemet tool.
	www.termsdefined.net /wo/work-breakdown-structure.html (462 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Custom is when the product and its components are all different and no attempt is made to group the tasks or processes.
		A Product Breakdown Structure is a graphic representation of an indented Bill of Material, where the indentations reflect the order in which the components are assembled.
		The term Product-oriented Work Breakdown Structure (PWBS) refers to the specific case where the product, work and organization are combined into a system to address a specific industrial product, like ships.
	www.engin.umich.edu /class/na276/CL11.html (428 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure
		This lesson presents the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), an output of the systems engineering process that breaks work into product-oriented elements and work processes and allows acquisition personnel to manage risk at levels lower than the overall system.
		Because it shows the relationships among the various products being developed, the WBS is often referred to as a "product-oriented family tree hierarchy." WBS is a valuable program management tool that is used throughout all life-cycle phases, and benefits all acquisition disciplines (e.g., program management, contracting, logistics, finance and budgeting).
		Contractors may extend the work breakdown structure to whatever level they feel is necessary to manage the program.
	www.humtech.com /Dcma/PiNew/Intro_PI/a080/main.htm (669 words)

	DPMM16022 - Guide to Product Based Planning: Product Breakdown Structure: External Products
		External Products are needed to create project products but are not themselves produced by the project.
		It is an example of a product supplied to the project and it is important that the project and the supplier have a clear understanding of what is required (and later in the planning process, when it is required) and it must be agreed and planned for.
		The need for External Products will emerge as the Core Products and their associated inputs and activities are identified.
	www.hmrc.gov.uk /manuals/dpmmmanual/dpmm16022.htm (127 words)

	Identifying tasks, estimating and metrics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) is similar to a Work Breakdown Structure, but...
		Products to be included in a PBS are
		Arrows indicate that one product is required in order to produce the next
	www.comp.glam.ac.uk /Teaching/projectmanagement/product-t6.htm (172 words)

	Product Based Planner - Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As many experienced planners will know, traditional project management software products offer many of the components such as network diagrams, Gantt charts and resource tables, but these are not integrated with the project products or deliverables, and amending the plan is far from straightforward – often resulting in significant inconsistencies.
		Product Descriptions and Configuration Management (for complex products, PBP controls their composition as well as their placement in the PFD)
		Activities relevant to these Products are added or removed automatically thus ensuring the consistency of the whole Plan.
	www.p2ware.com /PBP/Features.aspx (423 words)

	Current Articles
		WBS is an output-oriented breakdown of the products or end items of the project expressed as NOUNS.
		A WBS displays and defines the product, or products, to be developed and/or produced.
		In uncertain situations you would have a WBS for an investigation phase where your products or outputs of the phase were trying to define more certainty.
	www.asapm.org /asapmag/r_wbs.asp (527 words)

	ipedia.com: Work breakdown structure Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In project management, a work breakdown structure is an exhaustive, hierarchical tree structure of deliverables and tasks that need to be performed to complete a project.
		Work breakdown structure is a very common project management tool.
		Whether the WBS should be activity-oriented or deliverable-oriented is a subject of much discussion.
	www.ipedia.com /work_breakdown_structure.html (353 words)

	NWCG IRM-PMO Project Management Glossary - P-Prh
		Task within the work breakdown structure that embodies several subordinate child tasks.
		The percent defective of any given quantity of units of product is one hundred times the number of defective units of product contained therein divided by the total number of units of product, i.e.: Percent Defective = Number of Defectives x 100 divided by Number of Units Inspected.
		Project plan in the form of a structural network where the activities are denoted graphically by arrows.
	www.nwcg.gov /teams/pmo/products/pmglossary/P.htm (4443 words)

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