When you create a project WBS, you provide a breakdown
of the scope and activities of a project by using the WBS elements
- iteration, summary task, task, change request, issue, and defect.
Before you begin
Use the Overview and the Schedule
Gantt viewlets to perform this task. In the navigation bar, click Work,
and click the Overview tab, and the Schedule tab.
The
nesting and hierarchy of elements in a WBS is determined by the project
management process specification. In the default process specification,
the following rules apply:
- Iteration can only be created under a project or another iteration.
- Tasks cannot have any child elements.
Before you create a WBS, create a project and save it.
For more information about creating a project, see Creating a project
About this task
To create the WBS for a project:
Procedure
- Ensure the WBS Overview viewlet is open. In the WBS tree,
select the project to create the WBS for.
- To add WBS elements to the project, use either of the following
options:
- On the Create button, click the down
arrow, and click the WBS element to add.
- On the project row, click the down arrow, click Create
New, and select the element to add.
Enter the WBS element name. If you are creating subprojects,
enter the subproject Start and End date. Click Save.
- To modify the element name:
- In the WBS tree, on the element row, click the down
arrow and click Rename.
- Enter the element name.
- Click Save
- To add child elements to an element, in the WBS tree, select
the element. Use either of the following options to create a child
element:
- On the Create button, click the down
arrow, and click the child element to add.
- On the element row, click the down arrow, click Create
New, and select the child element to add.
Remember: - You must save an element before you can add child elements to
it.
- You cannot add child elements to a task. If a task is selected,
the Create button is disabled; and the down
arrow is not available for the task row.
- When adding child nodes, ensure that a single WBS
element does not contain more than 100 child elements.
The element is added to the WBS tree
with a default name.
- In the WBS Overview viewlet, click Save.
- To modify the default element name, see step 3:
What to do next
After creating the WBS tree, you can assign dates and durations
to the WBS elements, and also create dependencies between tasks.