• Task Identification & Work Breakdown Structure
• Task Identification and Work Breakdown


• Assigning Resources
• Assigning Resources
• Team Roles and Responsibilities List
• Responsibility Allocation Matrix


• Identifying Dependencies
• Identifying Dependencies


• Estimating Work & Costs
• Estimating Work and Costs
• Estimating Process and Methods
• Pete's Estimating Laws
• Project Budgets and Cost Tracking
• Tools and Equipment List


• Project Schedule & Critical Path
• Project Schedule and Critical Path
• Scheduling Checklist
• Milestone Table with Driver Tasks


• Make Trade-offs & Optimize
• Make Trade-offs and Optimize
• Project Flexibility Matrix
• Project Alternatives Tradeoff Table
• Product and Project Risk Assessment and Mitigation Tables
• Risk Management Plan


• Create Project Plan Document
• Create Project Plan Document
• Generic Project Plan Document
• Project Plan Example – Small Project
• IT Project Plan Document
• Development Project Plan
• Software Project Plan

Plan Development: Task Identification and Workbreakdown Structure

Summary: A detailed guideline for faster, better project scheduling. Several examples are included.

This guideline will help you and your team ...

• Develop an objective, rational view of the amount of work required
• Grasp the skills and resources required for the project
• Create a clear framework for assigning clear task definitions and delegating responsibility
• Lay a foundation for analyzing the task dependencies and for isolating and managing risks
• Begin developing a bottom-up estimate for the project schedule
• Make informed tradeoffs with the proper consensus involved

What you get:

• Instructions for using the guideline.
• An overview of WBS creation and a simple explanation of typical levels and approaches.
• Tips for engaging your team in creating the WBS. (You don't have to do it all yourself.)
• A checklist to validate an appropriate level of detail and reduce the chance of forgotten tasks.
• Four WBS examples at varying levels of detail.