Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures

by Project Management Institute

This is the first practice standard that the Project Management Institute (PMI®) has developed to complement and elaborate on the information contained in its de facto global standard for the profession, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – 2000 Edition. It provides guidance and universal principles for the initial generation, subsequent development, and application of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Successful project management uses planning techniques to define the project objectives in sufficient detail to support effective management of the project. The WBS provides the foundation for defining work as it relates to project objectives and establishes the structure for managing the work to its completion. Each descending level of a WBS represents an increasingly detailed definition of the project work. This PMI standard provides an introduction to the WBS concept, defines the WBS and its characteristics, discusses the benefits of using a WBS, and demonstrates how to build a WBS and determine if it is sufficient for subsequent planning and control. A unique feature of this handbook is the inclusion of 11 industry-specific WBS examples. Constituting over half of the book, these examples aid the reader in further understanding, creating, and using WBSs in the following industries or -Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical (OGP)
-Environmental Management
-Process Improvement
-Pharmaceutical
-Process Plant Construction -Service Industry Outsourcing
-Web Design
-Telecommunications
-Refinery Turnaround
-Government Design-Bid-Build
-Software Implementation Examples are in different stages of completion and represent the evolutionary development of a WBS. None of the examples should be taken as the only right WBS for that type of project. This is the first-of-its-kind Practice Standard from the world’s largest professional association for project management. It will enable project managers, project team leaders, contract personnel, and others interested in managing any aspect of a project to prepare a useful and high quality Work Breakdown Structure.

Genres: Business

80 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2000

Reviews

[Khaled Al-Bahnsawy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Work break down structure (WBS) is the most famous and used techniques used in modern project management.
The PMI provides here a standard of how to develop a successful WBS and compatible with the PMI methodology.
The big disadvantage of this practice guide is that it is based on a very old version of PMBOOK (2nd edition).
I read it while I am preparing to take the PMI-SP certificate test and I will go back to it one more time before the test

[Michael Falco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book for basic knowledge. Some of the chapters would also make excellent checklist to use when developing WBSes.

[Nestor Jimenez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty basic and redundant.

[Davina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a quick read. It was more readable than the Guide to the PMBOK, but not as good a flow as the Agile Practice Guide. I was reading to help coach someone on decomposition, and it was helpful. I've been through a training program from the University of California Santa Cruz Extension, so the material wasn't new. There wasn't anything really surprising, I just wanted a refresher. I've applied to take the PMP exam, so thought this might help as well. We'll see. I would have gone through this faster, but it wasn't my top priority.

[Trường · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book repeat WBS concept many time (according to me, this help reader consolidate theo knowledge), this version companion with PMBOK 6th, it follows predictive process more than adaptive.

I think various sample in this book will help you tailor your WBS clearly