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	Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v3.1
		However, "work" is often used in the sense of "work done" as in "work-to-date" (spent) on an activity or task.
		Work is considered accepted when it is conducted, documented and verified as per acceptance criteria provided in the technical specifications and contract documents.
		In cases where work is to be performed in segments due to technical or funding limitations, work authorization/release authorizes specified work to be performed during a specified period.
	www.maxwideman.com /pmglossary/PMG_W00.htm (1480 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.
		In building a work breakdown structure for painting a room (activity-oriented) it is essential that you state the obvious.
		Project management is not about performing the work, but rather more concerned about monitoring the work, so a good maxim to follow in preparing the WBS is to go to just enough detail to allow a piece of work to be assigned to a resource, and the status monitored.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Work_breakdown_structure (740 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure
		A Work Breakdown Structure is a results-oriented family tree that captures all the work of a project in an organized way.
		The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is used to provide the framework for organizing and managing the work.
		Work packages should be small enough to be executed by individuals or small groups in a single department, and they should be of relatively short schedule duration.
	www.hyperthot.com /pm_wbs.htm (1910 words)

	Work breakdown structure (wbs) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The work breakdown structure (WBS) displays and defines the product to be developed or produced by hardware, software, support, and/or service element, and relates the work scope elements to each other and to the end product(s).
		A WBS is developed by the A/E at the end of the design phase and/or by the bidders during the proposal (procurement phase).
		Internally, the project managers office will never be able to spend enough time defining, and redefining the boundaries of the work scope; communicating and recommunicating the boundaries of the work scope; and setting and resetting the time scales for accomplishment of the detail work scopes.
	core.ecu.edu /cmgt/saadi/cmgt4662/wbsadditional.htm (1098 words)

	Project Work Breakdown Structure
		Their work breakdown structure (WBS) is a "to do" list of one-hour chores.
		Coupled with this, we advocate weekly status reporting of hours worked, percentage complete and an estimate of the hours of work remaining to complete the assignment.
		Using the work breakdown structure (WBS) for cross-functional corporate projects, you have the opportunity to design a assignment and monitoring process.
	www.4pm.com /articles/wbs.html (818 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure
		Process impact: This work breakdown helps ensure that resources are allocated for all necessary tasks.
		One way of improving estimates is to do first the work that is hardest to estimate.
		A more detailed work breakdown structure will be produced for these tasks when the requirements are better known.
	www.ccp4.ac.uk /susy/project/wbs.html (430 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure - Pmpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Work-breakdown structure is a plan that subdivides project deliverables into smaller components for ease of management, estimation and measurability against project milestones.
		A WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition that defines all the work that has to be accomplished during the project.
		A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a very useful work product that a Project Manager should create to facilitate development of a Project Schedule.
	pmpedia.com /wiki/index.php?title=Work_Breakdown_Structure (265 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure
		A complex project is made managable by first breaking it down into individual components in a hierarchical structure, known as the work breakdown structure, or the WBS.
		Such a structure defines tasks that can be completed independently of other tasks, facilitating resource allocation, assignment of responsibilities, and measurement and control of the project.
		The work breakdown structure is the foundation of project planning.
	www.netmba.com /operations/project/wbs (299 words)

	WBS Concept
		The work breakdown structure is a graphical tool that displays the project's statement of work making it easier to understand and communicate.
		The work breakdown structure (WBS) is a powerful tool for expressing the scope or extent of a project in simple graphic terms.
		However, if a test case was a major document that took 2 working years to design, it would be viewed as a WBS element.
	www.chambers.com.au /Sample_p/wbs_cncp.htm (894 words)

	Project Management Tips and Techniques - Work Breakdown Structure
		The point of the Work Breakdown Structure is to capture all the elements of work.
		After you finish your initial breakdown of the work, do a quick estimate to determine whether any of the pieces require a work effort that is larger then the estimating threshold.
		When the Work Breakdown Structure is complete, you need to review and provide a specific estimate of effort for all of the detailed activities.
	www.revealnet.com /newsletter-v4/1103_E.htm (986 words)

	PROJECT MANAGERS ALSO NEED REALTIME DATA — AND A COUPLE ERP MODULES OF THEIR OWN
		Yet, there are all sorts of people in the corporation that don't want their data soiled with time stamps.
		Ultimately, each manufacturing work order and purchase order line will be associated with an individual project.
		Working in consort with the Project Control module will be the WBS module, providing the WBS for each project and each multi-level of the project.
	www.nnh.com /ev/119wbs.html (1668 words)

	WBS Work breakdown structure. Introduction to Project Management skills. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		WBS or Work breakdown structure describes the task list that must be completed to achieve project success.
		Either assign the task to the person actually carrying out the work or assign a series of tasks to one of the project team members whose responsibility is to see that they get done.
		The trouble with this approach is one has to go to the lowest level in the work breakdown structure to get it.
	www.project-management-basics.com /wbs.shtml (809 words)

	WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After the general purpose of work breakdown structures is discussed in Chapter 1, the handbook provides instructions on how to develop a program work breakdown structure (Program WBS) in Chapter 2.
		Chapter 3 offers guidance for developing and implementing a contract work breakdown structure in contract negotiation and award and in post-contract performance.
		The handbook's primary objective is to achieve a consistent application of the work breakdown structure.
	quanterion.com /Documents/Documents.asp?ArgVal=6326 (145 words)

	The Construction Contractor's Digest: Work Breakdown Structure - 17 Divisions
		Work Breakdown Strucure is one way to classify activities on a schedule, organize an estimate, classify labor codes and the like.
		Contractors should become familiar with the list and how their work would be classified and treated under this system.
		For a free Work Breakdown Structure listing (all 17 divisions), Click on the following link: http://stevensci.com/pages/infoform.html Fill in your information and type in "work breakdown structure list" and we will send it to your email address within 2 working days.
	www.contractorsblog.com /archives/2006/04/work_breakdown.html (402 words)

	Work breakdown structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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 management tool.
		Many United States government statements of work require work breakdown structures.
	www.centipedia.com /articles/Work_breakdown_structure (324 words)

	Project Management: Mastering the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Mindconnection
		This course, "Mastering the Project Work Breakdown Structure," teaches you about the —WBS: a core tool for developing accurate plans for planning and controlling work flow.
		Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) really addresses this last part (but also provides other advantages, if properly constructed).
		By organizing your project work into groups or categories that fall into other groups or categories, you can generate meaningful reports on project activities, work flow, and task status.
	www.mindconnection.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=M/PROD/400PM/PM-INT1-1-WBS (622 words)

	The CEO Refresher - Work Breakdown Structure
		One is chosen as the dominant structure, and the other is chosen as its subset.
		In the Chronological WBS structure, there will be times, when two or more functions will start at the same time.
		Determine what is important to the client, the functional perspective for the Functional WBS structure, or the timeline perspective for the Chronological WBS structure.
	www.refresher.com /!workbreakdown.html (839 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Planning Software by Critical Tools for Top Down Planning and Scheduling using a ...
		Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Planning Software by Critical Tools for Top Down Planning and Scheduling using a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS chart.
		WBS Chart Pro is a Windows-based project management software application that is used to create and display projects using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Chart.
		A WBS chart displays the structure of a project showing how a project is organized into summary (phase) and detail levels.
	www.criticaltools.com /wbsmain.htm (1338 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.
		Contractors may extend the work breakdown structure to whatever level they feel is necessary to manage the program.
		Is prepared and maintained by each contractor working on different portions of the program.
	www.humtech.com /Dcma/PiNew/Intro_PI/a080/main.htm (669 words)

	The Work Breakdown Structure in Government Contracting
		This new practical handbook teaches you how to employ the work breakdown structure (WBS) in government contracting to ensure that your contracts stay on track, on budget, and meet your objectives.
		The Work Breakdown Structure in Government Contracting will help both government personnel and contractors develop plans with a WBS that meets and exceeds OMB’s requirements.
		He has pioneered the use of work breakdown structures as contract requirements, instructing both government employees and contractors in their use for better project management.
	www.managementconcepts.com /publications/acquisition/wbsingovcont.asp (386 words)

	Work breakdown structure
		These PMs think their work breakdown structures (WBS) should be a "To Do" list for the project so they can tell everybody everything they need to do.
		Take a look at our Mentoring over the Web courses where you work with a PM mentor to master the decomposition process by actually developing a WBS based on meetings with stakeholders.
		The Work Breakdown Structure: Micro-managing or Assigning Accountabilities
	www.4pm.com /articles/work_breakdown_structure.htm (568 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure
		The "Work Breakdown Structure", or WBS is a key aspect of the project plan and represents the scope definition of the project.
		The main task now is to derive the lower level, detailed work units.
		Read section 5.3 "Scope Definition" of PMBOK for a discussion of work breakdown structures.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~edtech/679/lessons/plan/wbs.htm (292 words)

	Latest ODMref 1.0 Project Work Breakdown Structure
		The latest version of the ODMref 1.0 Work Breakdown Structure is always available in the ODMref 1.0 Status folder.
		The Work Breakdown Structure for initial ODMref 1.0 development is embedded in the TROST Pilot project.
		Complete the structure sufficient for completion of the ODMref Plan Update, ensuring that follow-on activities are captured as work items where they will be reviewed and acted upon in later stages.
	www.infonuovo.com /odma/active/ODMref10/status/WBS.htm (805 words)

	Discussion: Is a Work Breakdown Structure worth your time?
		By breaking tasks down to their granular level, you can see exactly what work is necessary to hit project milestones.
		Likewise, the WBS is not a work schedule; it doesn’t contain any information as to when or in what order or precedence tasks will be accomplished.
		However, a WBS is often the source for project Gantt charts, which are used to establish a work schedule.
	builder.com.com /5100-6315-1045963.html (599 words)

	EUROCONTROL - Work Breakdown Structure
		The programme implementation coordination is the last phase of a programme.
		FASTI working with EUROCONTROL's SIS/BD will co-ordinate activities such as: regional safety assessments, detailed design, development, or customisation of standard products, integration of the components, testing, publications, education, training procdures and final deployment to full operations.
		FASTI will be divided into various work packages under the leadership of the Programme Manager a Work Package Leader is nominated for each work package and be responsible for corresponding deliverables.
	www.eurocontrol.int /fasti/public/standard_page/WorkBreakStruc.html (219 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(WBS) provides a hierarchically structured decomposition of the activities (grouped into work packages) that are required to be completed to complete the project.
		consequently defines the scope of a project by defining all the work that needs to be completed.
		For military and defence projects the requirements for work breakdown structures is contained in MIL-HDBK 881.
	www.argospress.com /Resources/project-management/workbreakdstruct.htm (141 words)

	Dr. Dobb's \| Quick-Kill Project Management \| June 30, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Before working on the features that will be built, the lead should work with the team to come up with a list of estimates for each feature.
		If two people disagree on how long a task takes, it's likely that the source of their disagreement is that each person made different assumptions about details of the work product or about the strategy for producing it.
		The lead should work with the rest of the team to figure out exactly what those assumptions are.
	www.ddj.com /dept/architect/189401902?pgno=3 (989 words)

	Work Breakdown Structure
		For IT security to work, everyone must understand their role and must meet these additional responsibilities.
		This Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) represents the foundation of that plan.
		The overall goal of the IT Security Function is to continually improve the IT security posture of NASA HQ in the manner deemed most efficient and effective in terms of incident prevention, damage minimization, resource utilization, and law enforcement.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /security/workbreakdown/workstr.htm (2508 words)

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