What are the Characteristices of a sub-project?

How do you decompose a Project Work?

You can decompose the project work by executing the following steps: 1. Identify the deliverables and the work involved by analyzing the project scope statement and the requirements documentation. 2. Understand the relationships among the deliverables. 3. Structure and organize the first level (Server, UI and Db in our example) of the WBS hierarchy. Based on the project at hand, you can use one of the following approaches: o Use the deliverables as the components in the first level. o Use the phases of the project as the components in the first level. o Use the subprojects as components in the first level. A subproject is a part of the project that is independent enough of the rest of the project that it can be performed by another project team. This approach is useful when you want to outsource parts of the project. o Use different approaches within each branch of the WBS, for example, a subproject and deliverables in the first level. 4. Decompose the upper level into more detailed components for the lower level. 5. Keep decomposing to lower levels until necessary and sufficient decomposition has been achieved. 6. Assign identification codes to the WBS components.