What is the use of a Work Breakdown Structure? There are several uses, but the main one is to let you break up and structure the project into smaller, ‘bite-size’ pieces.
Each of those pieces is a mini-project. You can apply project management principles to each of them. Apply cost management, scope management, schedule management to each one. And because they are smaller projects, they will be easier to manage.
You can even delegate the management of each mini-project to a mini-project manager. Just remember that each little project is subject to its own constraints of scope, cost, and time, and therefore will focus on its own constraints, not on the constraints of the whole project. This is where integration management (the science of herding cats) is important.
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