WBS Director makes it easy to follow industry-recognized best practices and to keep your scope in sync with your Microsoft Project schedule.
When your schedule is set up correctly, MS Project is an invaluable tool to help you understand and communicate all of the details of the task assignments, cost, and relationships. When it is not set up correctly, it can become your worst nightmare.
WBS Director embeds the WBS creation and management directly into Microsoft Project to help the project manager define and control the project scope and the associated schedule using an integrated, user-friendly navigation process.
Use the WBS Dictionary to document the project's scope. Determine what is in and what is out. Establish the framework for the project. WBS Director will capture the high level deliverables and goals of your project with its graphical interface and easy-to-use WBS Dictionary. Start with one of our industry templates or build your own.
[+] Breakdown of the scope into manageable packages
Decompose the scope of the project into manageable work packages that can be controlled by one entity within the organization. Use the graphical interface to further breakdown the work to be completed within the project. Document the work to be performed in each work package using the WBS Dictionary. WBS Director will capture all of the top-down planning elements that you need to establish for your project, including duration, effort, and cost for each work package. WBS Director will help you to roll the planning numbers up to the higher levels of the structure.
[+] Create a schedule to support the WBS Work Packages
WBS Director has already created your schedule framework for you. All that you need to do is complete the schedule through the bottom-up development of the activities. Link the activities together in their logical relationships and assign the appropriate resources, effort, and cost numbers. Let WBS Director and the scheduling capabilities of Microsoft Project work together to provide you with a manageable schedule that is closely integrated to the project's scope.
