EXERCISE
What is WBS?
It is stand for Work Breakdown Structure is a key project deliverable that organizes the team's work into manageable sections. Each level of the work breakdown structure provides further definition and detail.
- Describe its importance.
The WBS has a numbe of benefits in addition to defining and organizing the project work. A project budget can be allocated to the top levels of the work breakdown structure and department budgets can be quickly calculated based on the each project's work breakdown structure.
- Describe the steps in constructing a WBS.
- the top level represents the final deliverable or project.
- Sub-deliverable contain work packages that are assigned to a organization's department or unit.
- All elements of the work breakdown structure don't need to be defined to the same level.
- The work package defines the work, duration and costs for the tasks required to produce the sub-deliverable.
- Provide an example WBS.
What is a Gantt Chart?
It is commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities displayed against time. Each activity is represented by a bar, the position and length of the bar reflects the start date, duration and end date of the activity.
It is commonly used in project management, is one of the most popular and useful ways of showing activities displayed against time. Each activity is represented by a bar, the position and length of the bar reflects the start date, duration and end date of the activity.
- Describe its importance.
It is useful for planning and scheduling projects, it help you to asses how long a project should take, determine the resources needed and plan the order in which you will complete tasks. it also helpful for managing the dependencies between tasks.
- Describe the steps in constructing a Gantt Chart.
- What the various activities are
- When each activity begins and ends.
- How long each activity is scheduled to last.
- Where activities overlap with other activities and by how much.
- The start and end date of the whole project.
- Provide an example Gantt Chart.
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