Introduction
Primavera P6 EPPM Navigation
Creating a Schedule in P6 EPPM
Resource Management in P6 EPPM
Improving the Schedule
Recording Progress in P6 EPPM

Adding and Creating a WBS in P6 EPPM

In this lesson video you'll learn why we have a work breakdown structure, how to add and create a WBS for your project, how to build elements at a WBS level, and how you can fit it into your project plan.

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In this lesson, we're gonna talk about the work breakdown structure, sometimes known as WBS. In our project, we're gonna be expanding our bottling plant. And within this project, there's two strands of work, one, a new automation system and two, conveyor system. And within each of those elements of design work and installation work.

So why do we have a work breakdown structure? I think from that last image, we saw that it's easy to break down work into meaningful chunks. And that's really the fundamental point of the WBS. So that we can manage work in chunks, we can report on it in meaningful chunks. And we can allocate work to individuals. It gives us an element of top-down planning. And by that we're not talking about the individual little pieces of work that we need to do to create the installation of the conveyorment [SP] system.

What we're talking about is simply at that top level, what do we need to do? We need to design a new conveyor belt system. Quite often the WBS will mimic a cost breakdown structure. What comes first? Well, quite often the two go hand in hand. Sometimes an organization will have a cost breakdown structure that you need to fit into. And the WBS can mimic that. What a WBS also allows us to do, as I did mention at the top, was to assign responsibility to individuals.

So I might have a specialist project manager who works ...

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