What you will learn
Create a work breakdown structure; identify dependencies and risks; track progress against a baseline; control changes and close out deliverables.
Course syllabus
- 1. Scope
Turn an objective into controlled deliverables
- 2. Schedule and risk
Dependencies, critical path and owned risks
- 3. Control and closeout
Progress evidence, change control and handover
Free lesson · 17m
Turn an objective into controlled deliverables
A project objective becomes manageable only when translated into accepted deliverables, boundaries and criteria. A work breakdown structure divides those deliverables into packages small enough to estimate, assign and verify. It describes the work, not the organisation chart.
State what is included, excluded, assumed and dependent on others. Ambiguous interfaces are where technical projects lose time: identify who supplies data, access, utilities, approvals and acceptance.
Define deliverables and acceptance; break work into manageable packages; make exclusions, assumptions and interfaces explicit.