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Creating a Winning Work Breakdown Structure—Live Online
Jean McKay, PMP, MSCIS
| Price: | $349 | ||
| PDUs: | 6 | ||
| Time: | 9am to 4pm CST | ||
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RMC Project Management is now delivering its most popular advanced project management training classes live and online! Using one of the top online learning facilitation tools in the world, students will experience true, classroom-style learning in front of their own computer. In addition to world-class instruction from experienced instructors, our live online classes will feature live chat, white boards, breakout rooms, file sharing, testing/quizzing, and dozens of other learning-based features.
Class Description
This accelerated learning course is designed to prepare you to create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for your own, real world projects. Expanding upon the (WBS) section of our popular Project Management Tricks of the Trade class, you will learn the benefits of the WBS in project management, and practice creating several Work Breakdown Structures with the help of the instructor and your classmates. You will be given a unique opportunity to begin creating your WBS for your current real world project.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, students will know and understand:
- What is a WBS
- What are project deliverables and the product of the project
- Uses and benefits of a WBS in project management
- Different approaches and formats for creating a WBS
- What is and is not included in a WBS
- How to create a WBS
- How to use a WBS to justify resources, manage many aspects of the project, and help team members understand how their roles and deliverables aid in achieving project goals.
Course Outline
- Introduction to the WBS
- Definitions
- WBS Benefits and Uses
- Approaches for Creating the WBS
- What Is and Is Not Included in the WBS
- Concepts by Industry and Project Life Cycle
- WBS vs. the Project Schedule
- WBS Examples and Formats
- Creating the WBS
- WBS Methods and Best Practices
- Decomposition
- Numbering Scheme and Naming Convention
- WBS Dictionary
- Purpose of the WBS Dictionary
- Top Down and Bottom Up
- Using the WBS and WBS Dictionary
- Action Plan


