A Practical Perspective of WBS via PMP and MS Project 2007 (Part - 3)

The earlier part in the series is available at: A Practical Perspective of WBS via PMP and MS Project 2007 (Part - 1) and

A Practical Perspective of WBS via PMP and MS Project 2007 (Part - 2)


Exemplification:
Armed with the above information, let us have a sample project, which has 2 work packages, each work package having five activities or tasks and two milestones. Though, we can divide it into multiple phases, deliverables etc., we will have a simple structure.

Our sample WBS for the aforementioned work packages will look as below.




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Using MS Project 2007:


Now after putting them in MS Project 2007, we will have:




Conclusion:

• The Work Packages/Summary Tasks (WP-A, WP-A) are bold faced
• The Milestones are of 0 duration (days) and they are represented as filled up diamonds. Please note that milestones need not be of zero duration. Though a milestone is not needed while creating a WBS, it is a good idea to have
• WBS Codes: The codes which are appended for each work package and activity are known as WBS Codes. You can have your own customized WBS codes, which are used in large scale enterprise project. Like it can be:

..., from where individual branching will happen for each of the phases, deliverables, work packages etc.

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