Create Wbs is part of the “Scope Management” Knowledge Area, and is part of the “Planning” Process Group.
Create WBS is the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components. The key benefit of this process is that it provides a structured vision of what has to be delivered.
The WBS is a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. The WBS organizes and defines the total scope of the project, and represents the work specified in the current approved project scope statement.
The planned work is contained within the lowest level of WBS components, which are called work packages.
A work package can be used to group the activities where work is scheduled and estimated, monitored, and controlled. In the context of the WBS, work refers to work products or deliverables that are the result of activity and not to the activity itself.
This definition was found in the PMBOK V5
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Create Wbs has:
Inputs:
- Enterprise Environmental Factors
- Organizational Process Assets
- Project scope statement
- Requirements documentation
- Scope management plan
Outputs:
- Project documents updates
- Scope baseline
Tools and techniques:
- Decomposition
- Expert judgment
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