Work Breakdown Structure

Scenario

You are a PM consultant who has been brought in by several small churches who wish to donate items for Hurricane victims in Houston. The group wants you to provide them a listing of the work they need to complete (the scope).

Directions

Using information from your textbook and from the resources provided, you will create a Work Breakdown Structure. There are examples of WBS on page 114-116 of your textbook.

Your Work Breakdown Structure has to meet the following criteria:

• It has to tell the person doing the work what a good job is before they start, create a clear performance expectation.
• It has to be unambiguously measurable. You dont want to require a meeting to decide whether the task is done. You and the church executives need hard-edged measures of project progress that are not open to interpretation or word games.
• Break the project down into large to smallest task to be completed.

Your work can be accomplished using a word processing document, Excel, or another program that can provide the chart shown.

Example: Work Breakdown Indentured List for Consumer Market Study Project

WBS #	DESCRIPTION	RESPONSIBLE	DELIVERABLES
	Consumer Market Study	Jim
1.0	Questionnaire	Susan
1.1	Design	Susan	Questionnaire approved
1.2	Responses	Steve	All completed responses received
2.0	Report	Jim
2.1	Software	Andy	Application software working
2.2	Report	Jim	Final report