Hi,
how can I create a work breakdown structure for a classic software development project? No answers please, that recommend agile methods.
Thanks in advance
Michael
I think you need to define what a "work breakdown structure" is?
A work breakdown structure (wbs) is a kind of an organization chart that shows all the tasks in the project in a logical order. All of the well known charts used in a project (PERT, CPM, Gantt, etc) are based on the wbs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structure
Yeah, except I've heard the phrase used to describe all sorts of things that are nothing like that. Heck, my main client at the moment has four workstreams with three totally different meanings for the phrase. It's not a standard phrase, even though it's in wikipedia. So I needed to check. The most common one I've seen and used in JIRA is the Gantt style charts - there are two addons on the marketplace which both do a good job of standard Gantt charting. You might also want to look at the JIRA Portfolio addon - it does quite a lot of cross-project reporting, but the bit that I think you'd like here is "automatic scheduling" - start at https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/portfolio
Thanks Nic, that's helpful, I'll have a look a at it.
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