ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 demonstrates how the scope can be broken down to activities, to a detailed roadmap to project goals. The work breakdown structure (WBS) is that roadmap. It reveals the structure of tasks that need to be completed to deliver the project goals. WBS tasks loaded with appropriate resources is introduced as the Project Cost Breakdown (PCB). The advantages of scope and cost sharing the same breakdown structure is explained. Examples on WBS demonstrate how required detail levels may vary at different management levels and from each stakeholder’s priority perspective. The chapter also covers creating a Work Package Dictionary and how that can be used to serve as the basis for generating resource totals for the project. Extensive examples that represent different views of stakeholders’ project scope and their WBS detail levels are included.
