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As someone who has created many work breakdown structures for different
industries, i can tell you, the solid benefit of
having a really good WBS for project success,
so i'm going to teach you today, what it is, why you need one, and an example too,
so if you're excited about this, like this video, and let's get to it,
so what is a WBS, no, no, it is not workable bleep, okay it's not that, it
actually is an acronym for, work breakdown structure, and it's like an
organizational hierarchical chart, if I were to do a comparison,
what you really want to do is, you want to take a deliverable, and you want to
break it down into manageable chunks, and that's what the WBS does for you, it's an
awesome technique whenever you need to take something very complex,
and simplify it, so that you can actually deliver to it.
Work breakdown structure layout, think of it like
an org chart, and I have an example for you, so let me show you,
so this is a really good visual of what i was just talking about regarding
how a WBS is laid out, like an org chart, so like an org chart, your
top level would be your CEO, or your President as we have here, but
for the WBS it's actually the project goal, it could
be a deliverable, a department, you can break it up whatever you want,
but it's really, ultimately if you were to complete
everything, what is it that you're delivering, and that's what would be in
that particular area, now you would break it down just like an
org chart, you have your president, and then you have your VPs or your
directors, and it's the same thing here, your level two would be major activities,
so whatever that deliverable may be, or department
activity, you would break out the major activities, I like to call them
the really large buckets, and then you go down to level three, so these are either
milestone activities within that major one,
uh, they could be even a further breakdown of activities,
and last but not least, you have your level four,
those individuals, the uh, if you really were to compare it to an org chart, it
would be those who were the doers, it's the tasks,
it's the orientation, so that's what your level four would be,
so when you have a project, really break it down in this manner, it's a
super easy way to get a handle on the amount of work you have to do, and to
truly understand if you have your scope correct, your timing
correct, etc so really break things down with your layout in a WBS
with level one, two, three, and four, work breakdown structure
example, so I have an example here for you on a construction project,
okay, so now let's actually take a look at an example, because when you see it,
as you can see, what I have in front of you right now, it really makes a lot of
sense, so that level one, what is our deliverable, it's building a
house, now you can only imagine how complex this can be,
so what are our level twos, well, with this particular way it was broken up, it
was in design, structural, utilities, finishing, and now
this is where the level three, there's even more you could break down within
that level two, and so if you take a look for example,
with design, decide on your plans, make changes, let's take a look at some
utilities, so you have your plumbing, and your electrical,
and your hvac, now one more level that is not shown here
is your level fours, so underneath plumbing
you're gonna have tons of tasks just to get all the plumbing,
one would be take a look at your plan and get a list of all your plumbing
materials, go to the store, or put in the order for
your plumbing materials, pick up the order from the plumbing
materials, schedule in your plumbers in order
to put in the material, do you see what I mean, there's a lot that you can do here,
but it just shows you how you can break things down, as I like to say
in manageable chunks, other cool things about a work breakdown
structure, all right, the first thing is you can take this structure that you
just created and translate it into an action plan,
it is an amazing tool and technique to do this,
and actually pull out all your action items, so something that I highly
recommend that you do, another cool thing about WBS is it
actually can bring accountability to your team members, because this is
something that you should be doing with them,
and last but not least, use it as an activity, creating and finalizing your
WBS, particularly if you created into a
project plan at your kickoff meeting, so cool this tool, it is so important to
project management, because you use it throughout the life cycle of a project,
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