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Practical Management Science

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Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

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You have just been assigned as the project manager for an ongoing project in your company. You have discovered there is no Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) which is a project management tool showing a hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives. When you talked to your project sponsor about the issue, he told you that nobody in the company even knows what a Work Breakdown Structure is or what purpose it serves. He also told you that the company has executed numerous projects in the past without ever using a Work breakdown structure. However, he asked you to prepare one just in case it is really a necessary project tool.

A) Using a hypothetical project in the mentioned company, prepare a Work Breakdown Structure for presentation to your sponsor..
B) Discuss the characteristics of an effective WBS and the importance of applying it to the project management cycle.

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