The Work Breakdown Structure is likely a new concept to most in the class. Your graded PM assignment this week will be to create a WBS for your Executive CGE project. We felt it would be helpful to provide you with an opportunity to practice this important skill as part of the Collaboration Café this week. There are some additional resources included in the lesson that you are also encouraged to take advantage of. Assume you were appointed as a project manager to lead a dozen of your classmates to write up an end-of-course summary guide that would be used to update all areas of the course (i.e., discussion questions, lectures, assignments, quizzes, and exams). You get to meet face-to-face periodically, but the majority of the work is done via teleconference (Zoom, TEAMS, WebEx, etc.) and e-mail. You plan to form subteams to work on each of these elements, each headed by a subteam leader. Create a WBS for this case study. What are some of the considerations you made when you decided on this structure? After posting your draft, review a number of your classmates’ ideas and look for similarities and differences. Ask questions about why a person set up his or her plan as he or she did. Would you change anything about your plan after networking with others?
