WBS Workshop: Map Your Project Deliverables with an Expert (PMW_WBS)
Build a work breakdown schedule for one of your own projects with help from an experienced project manager. Earn 4 PDUs and walk away with a job-ready WBS.
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- Private class for your team
- Live expert instructor
- Online or on‑location
- Customizable agenda
- Proposal responses same day as request
Course Overview
PDUs
4 PDUs
Description
A work breakdown structure (WBS) maps every deliverable on your project. Understanding your deliverables is the first step before scheduling, budgeting, or staffing. Experienced project managers use a WBS to lay the groundwork for sucessful project planning.
In this workshop, you'll build a WBS for one of your own projects with an experienced project manager reviewing it as you work. You'll break large deliverables into manageable work packages, document them in a WBS dictionary, and estimate them using PERT, a technique that accounts for uncertainty.
Who should attend: Project managers, business analysts, team leads, and anyone who plans projects or estimates work.
Course Benefits
- Create an WBS for your own project and have it reviewed by an expert
- Explain the difference between product scope and project scope
- Split deliverables into work packages that are easier to estimate and track
- Build a WBS dictionary and understand how it forms the scope baseline
- Estimate work packages with PERT and give estimates with confidence ranges
- Avoid the most common causes of missing scope, late schedules, and budget overruns
Course Outline
- Why scope breaks projects
- What happens when scope is incomplete
- How scope drives schedule and budget
- Defining scope
- Product scope vs. project scope
- Requirements as the source of scope
- Charter scope boundaries: what's in and what's out
- WBS fundamentals
- Deliverables, sub-deliverables, and work packages
- Rules: nouns not tasks, no sequence, the 100 percent rule
- Instructor demo: building a WBS with a mind map
- Workshop: Build your WBS
- Decompose your project's deliverables to the work package level
- Pair review: check a partner's WBS for missing scope
- Instructor review and feedback
- WBS dictionary and scope baseline
- What to document for each work package
- Scope statement, WBS, and WBS dictionary as the baseline
- Estimating work packages with PERT
- Optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates
- PERT average, standard deviation, and confidence levels
- Exercise: estimate three of your work packages
- Wrap-up and action plan
Delivery Methods
Live expert-led online training from anywhere. Guaranteed to run .
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
Class Materials
Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.
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