Work Breakdown Structure Case Study

7. How do you envision the Work Break Down structure for a Mega Project such as the Airbus-A380 Aero Plane?

Solution:

● A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key project deliverable that organizes the team 's work into manageable sections.

● In simple terms we can say that the work breakdown structure defines the scope into manageable modules that a project team can easily understand because each level of the work breakdown structure will provide details.

● Let us talk about why it is necessary to create a work breakdown structure:

▪ As we discussed above, it will help us to subdivide the project work into smaller and manageable components.

▪ It will provide a better understanding of the project

▪It will organize in terms of phases or

▪ Work packages should define the work, cost and time duration for the tasks required to produce the sub-deliverable.

▪ The top level must represent the final deliverables.

● Let us consider this case study Airbus A380:

▪ The aircraft system will be the final deliverable.

▪ Work packages will include development-enabling products, operations-enabling products etc.

▪ Sub-deliverables will include global positioning subsystem, display subsystem, radar control subsystem etc.

8. What is the impact on project scheduling when customers delay or cancel their order?

Solution:

● Project scheduling is a kind of a tool that communicates what kind of work needs to be performed, which resources of an organization will perform the work and within a specific

10. Did Quality Control fall apart at Airbus? What were the implications (if any)?

Solution:

● Quality control is a process through which a business seeks to ensure that whether the quality of a product is maintained or improved. It also ensures that the manufacturing errors are reduced or eliminated.

● Quality control creates an environment where the management and employees strive for perfection.

● So, by specifying which production activities are to be completed by which personnel will limit the room for error because this technique will only give a chance to the employees who are well trained for performing that particular task.

● I feel that quality control did fall part at Airbus mainly due to the following inferences from the case study:

▪ It is undeniable that A380s orders did not meet the aspirations of Airbus. Since 2000, as we have seen, the A380 has won 319 orders, less than a third of the 1,200 Airbus projected in the plane’s first 20 years.

▪ Also, clearly visible from the fact that not a single U.S airline has ordered it and only five have been ordered from China which will be the world’s largest aviation market in 20