IFSM 438

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What NOT to do in a WBS Additional Lecture Material from Garrett Rowley, Adjunct Professor, UMGC

Here are some (hilarious) examples from actual projects that illustrate what you should avoid in your WBS. The names have been changed to protect the innocent! But everything else is real.

Activity Name Editorial comment

Draft Charter and Project Management Plan and Draft Cost Tool Too many deliverables

Review, finalize and present Proposal to JSP Customer Relations Manager

Too many actions, named resource doesn't belong here

Engineering install applications in test environment for initial evaluation

Too many actions

PM Requests Service Design/Transition folder from Service Design Doesn't describe work

Validate Performance Nothing specific here

V&V Scans & Generates/Delivers Initial V&V Report to A&A / PM / ENG

Uhhhhh . . .

A&A Explains to Customer - System Categorization Document Well, that's cozy

IF NEEDED - Return FW Request to Customer for Rework Tasks are never conditional

Engineer to submit CRQ Received by ECRB (latest 9am Friday) Oh my! What does this mean?

Meet with the IMOs to see what applications they ID and compare then against Mr. Smith's and/or General Jones' spreadsheet

Are we having a conversation?

Test servers have been built, some issues with firewalls being worked on now to fully complete installation of application in test environment; next steps after successful f/w implementation and cBack up and restore the production data to a 3 cluster node

Are we writing a novel?

I'd like to see how implementation with our Enterprise Citrix is going (we are still fixing some config items) - and then would like to get with COOP manager to discuss. I'd also like to bring Joe Snorkel on discussion since we are discussing

Oh, you'd like that?

Hear from Mr. George that HQ has discussed with XYZ COOP Didn't know "Hear" was a project activity!

Let me know if you can facilitate who would get this on the right SQL Server for the SAM folks to use for HQ software. It was mentioned today by Mr. Smersh that he agrees with my assessment of using it to keep track of all software - eventually - b

Cute little emoji - OMG!

It depends on which servers that are used for this application. If the servers are decommissioned then I would like to pull the licenses back. I just don't know enough about the infrastructure and application to say what they are at this point.

OMG - Again!