Product breakdown structure in construction

Managing projects is something that requires structure in order to have the best rate of success. By not having any structure there is a severe risk of achieving projects where the different tasks will start to work against each other, which could result in requirements from the stakeholders not being meet, bad communication and collaboration among the involved parties and the time schedule and budget might have to be extended. Therefore lacking or missing structure is a project manager's worst nightmare and must be avoided. The best way to achieve such order from the very start is to apply some kind of management process to assure that the project is steered and kept in the right direction. Among the many tools available the project scope management could be chosen. When working through a management process like this, the covered areas will be: Plane scope management, Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS "Work breakdown structure", Validate Scope and Control Scope. Within the project scope management process the creating WBS "Work breakdown structure" is a tool, which has some large benefits in order to obtain a good cost-, time planning and execution of the project. There are different types of "Breakdown structures", determined on the given approach and though out this article the focus will primarily be on the PBS "Product breakdown management" and the pros and cons by using this tool in project management.  

Managing projects is something that requires structure in order to have the best rate of success. By not having any structure there is a severe risk of achieving projects where the different tasks will start to work against each other, which could result in requirements from the stakeholders not being meet, bad communication and collaboration among the involved parties and the time schedule and budget might have to be extended. Therefore lacking or missing structure is a project manager's worst nightmare and must be avoided. The best way to achieve such order from the very start is to apply some kind of management process to assure that the project is steered and kept in the right direction. Among the many tools available the project scope management could be chosen. When working through a management process like this, the covered areas will be: Plane scope management, Collect Requirements, Define Scope, Create WBS "Work breakdown structure", Validate Scope and Control Scope. Within the project scope management process the creating WBS "Work breakdown structure" is a tool, which has some large benefits in order to obtain a good cost-, time planning and execution of the project. There are different types of "Breakdown structures", determined on the given approach and though out this article the focus will primarily be on the PBS "Product breakdown management" and the pros and cons by using this tool in project management.