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2000 Project Management Institute, Inc. - 91p.
This Practice Standard provides guidance useful in the initial generation, further development, and application of Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs). The target audience for this standard includes project managers, contract personnel, and others who participate in the technical, schedule, financial, quality, and risk management of projects. In using this Practice Standard, it must be recognized that because projects vary, so may the resulting WBSs. Certain principles, however, may be considereduniversal. This document addresses those principles.
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October 2000 Dear Professional Colleague, Reference: Exposure Draft for Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) has received widespread acclaim and serves as a reference for anyone interested in project management by focusing on knowledge and practices applicable to most projects most of the time. In fact, the PMBOK® Guide has become the de facto global standard for project management. And, its acceptance as an official project management standard is evidenced by its adoption by the American National Standards Institute as an American National Standard on 21 September 1999 and its prior adoption by The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) as a project management standard for its profession. Earlier this year in accord with the PMI Project Management Standards Setting Policy and Procedures, you reviewed and commented on an updated version of the PMBOK® Guide as an Exposure Draft. Comments and suggestions you made were reviewed by the update project team and used to improve the update which is currently in the publishing cycle. PMI® volunteers have also been working on companion documents that would expand on the inputs, tools and techniques and outputs in the PMBOK® Guide. The first of those companion documents is now ready as an Exposure Draft. PMI volunteers, under the project leadership of Kim Colenso, PMP, have stepped forward once again to aid the profession by preparing the Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures. In accord with the PMI Project Management Standards Setting Policy and Procedures, the Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures is available at this web site as an Exposure Draft for your review and comment. Your thorough review of the entire document, and your submission of any recommended additions, deletions, or corrections are encouraged. Please submit your comments by following the procedures and using the forms also available on this web site. Any suggestion(s) that you submit regarding this Exposure Draft will be reviewed carefully, and then you will be informed of the resultant decision. Your support for PMI and the profession is appreciated. With best professional regards, Kim Colenso, PMP Project Manager, Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures Steve Fahrenkrog, PMP PMI Standards Manager Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures Exposure Draft Version Project Management Institute Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures Exposure Draft Version PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fleming, Quentin W. Earned value project management / Quentin W. Fleming and Joel M. Koppelman.--- 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN: 1-880410-27-3 (alk. paper) 1. Cost control. 2. Program budgeting. 3. Production control. 4. Industrial project management. I. Koppelman, Joel M. II. Title. HD47.3 .F59 2000 658.15– – dc21 00--055864 CIP ISBN: 1-880410-27-3 Published by: Project Management Institute, In