WBS and the Deliverables Orientation: How to Implement the Same Tasks in Several Departments

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about how to create a WBS. He explains that even though there are no specific rules to create a WBS, the most important thing is to allow the ones who will execute the work to fully understand what needs to be done. Ricardo also explains that the WBS does not provide any chronological sequence, but instead must guarantee that all the work to be produced is effectively broken down up to the point where the activities can be assigned to those who will execute them.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes PM. Podcast Today, let's discuss about the WBS and also the deliverables. It's a very important to understand that all the WBS chart is intent to add in this and their compost, the deliverables of the project. It's a very common, we see mistakes or something like phase one, phase two and phase three, like a group of the WBS chart.

This is wrong. And why this is wrong because the intention of the WBS chart is not to compete with the network diagram or the Gantt chart. This is not intention of the WBS did WBS. He doesn't want to show relationship. And also scaffold did. That will be yes, is looking at aiming to show Zemo pieces that contribute to the overall results. And I receive one very, very interesting question.

Today asking me he got two. How do you suggest that I compose my WBS chart for this project. I have several Departments and the same Deliverables in each department. So let's suppose that I have found Departments from one to 10 and five Deliverables from the deliverable, a way to the liver boat. He and he asked me, should I group them by department and put the five Deliverables in each of the apartment, the same five deliverables, a, B, C, D, and E, or should I group deliverable a and then the apartment one, two, three, up to 10.

What does the right? And my answer is there is no right answer for that. Why? Because both of them are intending to show the Deliverables. And what is it important that will help me to decide, which is the best each not only a matter of building the WBS, but for the first think that I will analyze the resources, the resources that we'll be doing deliverable AE are the same for all the departments.

If this is true, maybe it's a gas that I should group them in deliverable a and then the Departments because it's the same group. So it's much easier for me to administer the resource allocation. In the other hand, let's suppose that the department and the resources inside the department are responsible for a deliverable, a B, C, D N E. Dan. I strongly suggest that you group by department, because it's much easier, regardless if it's deliverable a or the group will be the same second thing that we need to analyze and be very careful.

We need to the lice, the relationship. I know that the double BS doesn't even know to show up and to analyze relationships. But if I have, for example, are very strong relationship between the deliverable in the liver will be, for example, in the same department, maybe it's better to group them by the point in the order hands. If I do that, a very strong relationship between deliverable aide in the department, one and deliverable AE in the apartment seven, there may be it's much matter to group them in deliverable a and then put all the departments together because this will make more sales for them, for me, in the future, to the table, to one of the lies and also to establish links.

So both of them are correct. We need to be nimble in this market to make the proper decision. This is the challenge that we face in this case, and that will be S learn how to do that. But yes means practice. You must try it, do one to two to 10 times until you become very smart and understanding all relationship off the WBS. Again, WBS each one oriented buy the Deliverables and did the tale of the deliverable will be a result from the WBS shot.

And for me, it's one of the key success factor in all projects there, people don't know how to detect the scope. So that way he started doing, and they have Skelos and time and cost, but they don't know exactly which the deliverable everybody's expecting from them because of this to understand and prepare a great WBS. I hope you enjoyed this podcast and see you next week with another five minutes, be on podcasts.

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