Case Study: Nicolette's Work Breakdown Strengths

Nicolette was feeling overwhelmed and exhausted after having first committee meeting for the summer tournament. She has received many ideas and suggestions from committee members, so she realized the responsibility for this vast amount of work, which needs to be done promptly. Few ideas were incorporating to corporate sponsorship to help fund the tournament, selling tournament related product such as t-shirts and sweatshirts. Others strategies are to contact local area colleges to convince them to use their soccer fields and provide rewards to the winner. Besides the ideas from committee members, Nicolette planned to develop a work breakdown structure to organize the summer invitational tournament project in an efficient way.

Deliverables

Nicolette needs to create a work breakdown structure and analyze the deliverables for the project. A good work breakdown structure main characteristic is to provide a standard framework for all

Each element 's relationship is established to the project last items. A hierarchical structure helps in the estimation of cost, time and technical performance at all levels in the organization during the whole project (Lawson & Gray, 2011). Break down structure would help in the completion of the project in a timely and efficient manner. One essential element of a work breakdown is that if each item in the work breakdown structure has a time and cost estimated, it would be possible to plan, schedule and cost of the whole project. According to Lawson and Gray, 2011, the project manager can track cost and performance at each level of the project if already time and cost to each item. In work breakdown structure, organizational units and individuals are assigned responsibility for executing work. The work breakdown structure is also an efficient way of communication between the project leaders and lets them know their task and expense which save money and