Creating and Using a Work Breakdown Structure (PMI – PMP)

Project Management Professional Certification Program (PMI-PMP)

Created by: Sorin Dumitrascu
Management trainer

What Will I Learn?

• Describe ways in which a work breakdown structure can be useful when planning and managing a project
• Recognize how to organize the layers of a work breakdown structure
• Identify inputs to the Create WBS process
• Recognize decomposition activities
• Recognize best practices for decomposing project deliverables
• Identify characteristics of verified deliverables in a WBS
• Identify the key activity for finalizing a WBS
• Identify the components of the scope baseline
• Recognize the role of the WBS dictionary in a project's scope baseline
• Demonstrate your understanding of the Create WBS process

Requirements

• No special requirements or prerequisites are needed to take this course, but some extra reading about projects, project management, project life cycle, organizational project management, project scope, project schedule, project costs, project quality, project human resources and project communications will help.
• Part of the Project Management Professional Certification Course (PMI-PMP)

Target audience

• Leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, professionals and project workers with or without formal project management training will improve project management skills and knowledge and will be ready to stand for formal certification.