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Duration: 2 Days                                                          Contact hours: 16 hours
Course level: Beginner to Intermediate                   Price: $1050

Plan, organize and manage your projects for success!

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the key element in project management. WBS is more than a simple list of tasks and activities. It constitutes the key work packages of the project, and can be used in key project functions such as planning, estimating, controlling and risk management. Effective development and use of the WBS is a key to project success.

Prerequisites:
Attendees should have fundamental knowledge of project management.

What you will gain from this course:

• An understanding of the importance of the WBS in project management.
• Knowledge and skills required for constructing a WBS.
• Understanding of the role and use of the WBS in successful project management.
• Understanding of how the WBS can be used to integrate project management functions, such as planning, risk management, procurement, scheduling, estimating and project execution.

Who should attend this course:

• Project or program managers, project team members, department managers and team leaders, senior management.
• Professionals in any functional areas, such as engineering, procurement, marketing, who may benefit from application of project management methodologies within their functions.

Course agenda:
Introduction

• Key definitions
• Importance and function of the WBS
• Overview of WBS structure

WBS and project definition

• Establishing the WBS
• Project planning and the WBS
• Scope management and the WBS
• Determining levels of the WBS
• WBS decomposition
• WBS and project functions
• Risk management and the WBS
• Scheduling and estimating using the WBS
• Project resource management and the WBS