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Hey james have you heard of the program Vizio?
We are currently in the process of using it to create a generic WBS structure for our Projects.
Hey james have you heard of the program Vizio?
We are currently in the process of using it to create a generic WBS structure for our Projects.
Hi Paul,
I find MS project easy to make a WBS outline and importing it to P3 format. You can easily change the level just by indenting it. I have imported some schedule from ms project to P5 and i think it is easy to define WBS strcuture in MS project.
Cheers,
Ronald
Hi Paul,
Sorry for interrupting the thread.You have shown histograms and s-curve prepared out of Primavera V? in your article"The practical application of EVPM. Can you explain a bit how to prepare histograms and s-curves in Primavera format?
regards
P2World is a software product designed to create a WBS or a PRINCE2 Product Breakdown Structure. A trial version may be downloaded from my web site.
The terminology may be switched for PRINCE2 to PMBOK compliant using Tools, Options, Models.
Paul E Harris
Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Planning and Scheduling Training Manual & Book Publishers & Consulting
www.eh.com.au
Thanks for the advice...
Andrew,
I took a look at that affinity diagram thing... a quite interesting variation on traditional brainstorming techniques. I could certainly see using it to look at revamp projects within the overall turnaround and for high level scoping it could be very useful too. Might get a little messy for detailed decomposition though ... not sure I have a table big enough! I suppose the trick would be to form a high level one first then focus in on headers in turn.
Rav,
I thought P.Point was for dressing up lies for management consumption ;) really though, its a bit linear for WBS development isnt it?
any other ideas / experience with specific WBS developement tools?
James,
You made mention of the ’Old School’ pen & paper.
This combined with the planning and scheduling software WBS code fields or method of display is the method I use to good effect.
The pens, a different colour for each trade group of discipline on the project, or, different colour ’Post It Notes.
Then using the ’Affinity Diagram’ method, collate all of the results into the WBS structure that will be used.
Once I have all of the WBS elements defined I generally create a series of spreadsheet in the old faithful excel, to try and get the project team to create a WBS dictionary, (Not with much success though, as they see this as a ’Planning’ oversight function).
As for your top level structure which you have been handed, once you’ve finished the first or second round of the Affinity process you could put this structure up as the groupings for the Affinity groups created.
That’s what happens in my world
Andy
MS Powerpoint!!