When finalized, a WBS will have several control accounts associated to work packages. More than one work package may be associated with a control account but any one work package is associated with one unique control account. Control accounts are management control points where scope, cost and schedule are integrated. These are used to...
Decomposition is the activity of breaking down project deliverables iteratively. This is continued until the lowest level is reached, this level is the work package level. Work packages are set of activities that are so well defined that cost estimates and time estimates of these sets of activities can be done reliably and accurately....
Once the project scope document and the scope document are ready, detailed planning for the project needs to start. To do that effectively the project activities need to be defined in terms of clear tasks that can be estimated well in terms of effort and time. Break down of deliverables into well defined tasks...
Organizing the activities in a project works well for executing a project. It works well for monitoring it too. When you have been able to organize the tasks and sub-tasks in a well defined structure, it can give you a good feel of what parts need to be ready for progressing to another phase...
Time schedule management is about managing the scheduling of tasks. The question is how large or small these tasks should be to make a project manageable. One deterministic approach say that if we could define things to such a level that what’s to be done every hour or less can be specified then a...
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