1. INFINITY

2. W
B
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WBS
& Event planning process

3. WORK
BREAKDOWN
STRUCTURE
A fundamental technique of project management to
define and organize total scope of work of a project
using hierarchical chart.

4. diagram
project
task
subtask
work package

5. Types
1 Verb oriented
2 Noun oriented
3 Time phased

6. WBS elements
Hierarchical units of a project
task
Work package
subtask

7. 1
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Scope of the work
Time duration
WBS
elements
contain
3
4
Budget for the scope of work
Persons responsible for the works

8. These elements are like small projects
within the main project.

9. WBS DESIGN PRINCIPLES

10. The
100%
rule
WBS should include 100%
of the work defined by the
project

11. Wh Y
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• Avoiding unnecessary task
• Development of the WBS
• Decomposition of the
project
• Evaluation of the WBS

12. Planned outcomes
not planned actions
a person gets into a bus but doesn’t know where to go . . .

13. ?
Why planned outcomes
• To avoid too many actions or too few
actions
• To follow the 100% rule
• Greater ingenuity and creative thinking

14. Level is the most important
1 Determine actual cost and schedule term
2 Know how much it took to design a product
3 Know the actual cost of major part

15. x
Mutually e
clusive elements
1 No overlap
2 Ambiguity results miscommunication

16. How far down
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• Work package is the lowest level
• Effective limit - - - no possible outcomes only actions

17. Procedure for designing & using the
WBS for event planning
1Using information from the action plan
2 Identify relevant data to the WBS

18. Cont…
3 work package information review individuals or
organizations
4 determinants of profit & loss
5 schedule & milestone events aggregate into a projected
baseline schedule

19. Cont…
6 examination of actual resources
7 project schedule subjected to same comparison as
project budget

20. WHY WBS
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Tasks
Costs
Schedule
Scope
Responsibility

21. WBS Platform/Software
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Asana
Evernote
Todolist
Basecamp
Action method

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25. Thank you
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