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Structure Creation

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Project Planning Course Overview
Project Planning Overview
Facilitating Processes
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Purpose
The Project Breakdown Structure (PBS) defines all Work
Products, produced by a project.
The purpose is to first focus on what the project shall
produce, not the activities to perform.

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Input & Output
INPUT
Product Requirements Specification
Project Breakdown Structure from earlier versions of the product and
previous projects, if available
Know-how from experienced personnel
Architecture
Organizational Demands

OUTPUT
Project Breakdown Structure including;
Technical Product Breakdown Structure
Management Product Breakdown Structure
Quality Product Breakdown Structure
The PBS is used as input when defining the Work Breakdown Structure
later in the planning process.

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Work Products
A project always delivers tangible things like documents, code,
models, executables, plans etc. which all are Work Products.
Some examples;
Customer deliverables
software on a CD-ROM, user documentation etc.
Software components
source code files, DLLs, executables etc.
Development components
design models, prototypes, tools etc.
Management artifacts
plans, budgets, progress reports etc.
Quality assessment artifacts
test results, inspection reports etc.

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Project Breakdown Structure
The Project Breakdown Structure should identify all Work
Products of the project and the final product.
The highest level represents the total set of Work
Products.
At the lowest level every Work Product is either a
Management Product, a Technical Product or a Quality
Product.

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Requirement-Work Product traceability matrix
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Management Work Products
The Management Work Products are those that;
Assist in project management and control issues
Gives the answer to the business requirements

Typical Management Work Products are;
Requirement specifications
Project plans
Risk list
Status reports
Budget specification
Project (gate) assessments
Minutes of meetings

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Technical Work Products
The Technical Work Products are;
Project deliverables, i.e. the final product
Intermediate products needed during development
The answer to the technical requirements

Typical Technical Work Products are;
Hardware and Software
User documentation
Prototypes
Design models
Education products
Testing products
Executables

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Quality Work Products
The Quality Work Products;
Exists to define, assure, verify and record quality issues
Gives the answer to the quality requirements

Typical Quality Work Products are;
Test records
Inspection (review) records
Error (problem) reports
Follow-up reports

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Summary
The Project Breakdown Structure is a tree structure reflecting the
Work Products on all levels produced by a project.

The Project Breakdown Structure should contain all the items
included in the final product, needed to build the final product and
needed to support the development of the final product.

The Work Breakdown Structure is later identified by defining what
activities are needed to produce the Work Products to the required
quality.

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Revisions
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Description Date
Dept./Init.
04 All Update from Version C
2004-01-08/ Fredrik
Ekdahl
05 Page17 Planning package should not include the
work product picture redrawn
2005-01-12 / Christer
Persson

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Relation between PBS & WBS
PBS
WBS
Work
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Activity
Planning Package
Planning
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