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What are the Objectives of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?

NimbleWork

A Brief History The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) has its origins in the mid-20th century, evolving primarily in industries such as defense, aerospace, engineering, and construction. Review and Validate : Review the WBS with stakeholders to ensure that it accurately represents the project scope and objectives.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

Judgment from experience requires repeatability (experts work best in Complicated or Ordered cynefin domains) The moment you have little-to-no repeatability experts are at best useless, adaptability is a better survival strategy. For software development starts with. This is the classic #Noestimate vision of how software is developed.

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DDSTOP The Saga Continues

Herding Cats

1] "Systems Engineering Strategies for Uncertainty and Complexity," MITRE Corporation, Systems Engineering Guide. [2] If you're not an expert, you're not going to recognize the possible solutions, risks, impediments, and opportunities for the problems you'll encounter in developing a solution that has never been developed before.

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Team Management: The Key of to Success

International Institute for Learning

For instance in the Agile Scrum Methodology [4] it is recommended to have 10 or fewer people in a team. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, likes to use the “two-pizza rule” for strategy and development teams. If it takes more than two pizzas to feed (with a slice) the team, the team is likely too big.