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Posted by Dellu
May 24, 2018 at 06:36 PM
Today I learned the existence of a complete system of project management by starting from the big to the small. It is called WBS (work breakdown structure).
I always felt the need to look from the bigger picture to the small details. But, I never knew people have developed a complete system to it.
Posted by Paul Korm
May 24, 2018 at 07:02 PM
A WBS is a standard procedure for project management. E.g., see the guidelines from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in their Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). PMI-certified project managers are tested on WBS and other standards. Government agencies (Defense, Transportation, etc.) require contractors and others to follow prescribed work breakdown structures—which at times can reach very significantly granular levels of detail. Project cost estimates and performance tracking are at the WBS level.
Dellu wrote:
Today I learned the existence of a complete system of project management
>by starting from the big to the small. It is called WBS (work breakdown
>structure).
>
> I always felt the need to look from the bigger picture to the small
>details. But, I never knew people have developed a complete system to
>it.
>
Posted by Dellu
May 24, 2018 at 09:50 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
A WBS is a standard procedure for project management. E.g., see the
>guidelines from the Project Management Institute (PMI) in their Project
>Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK). PMI-certified project managers
>are tested on WBS and other standards. Government agencies (Defense,
>Transportation, etc.) require contractors and others to follow
>prescribed work breakdown structures—which at times can reach very
>significantly granular levels of detail. Project cost estimates and
>performance tracking are at the WBS level.
>
Interesting. I never heard of this methodology. i have heard of Agile, Kanban, Scrum and of course GTD. These methods are good for some cases. But, I felt that they have inverted the steps by focusing on the details without showing the big pictures (general purpose; or object that one want to accomplish; then break it down to components so that they will be finally “tasks”). Just starting to collect tasks before figuring the core directions to focus on felt incomplete,directionless journey.
Thank you for explaining Paul, as always. I have to look into WBS.