A work breakdown structure shows the work that must be done in a project and helps ensure that all the work has been identified. After watching this video, you will be able to produce a visual report that shows the tasks in a Project file in a WBS hierarchy.
- Hi, Bonnie Biafore here with another Project tip. … A work breakdown structure, or WBS, shows Project … work as a hierarchy like an organization chart. … If you need a WBS to show stakeholders, … you can produce one in Project by creating … a Visio-based visual report. … So we're going to go to the report tab … and on the right side click visual reports. … That opens up the visual reports dialogue box. … Now, we want the Visio visual report templates. … So what I'm going to do here is turn off … the checkbox for Microsoft Excel. … That way all I see are the Visio reports. … And you can see that the samples over here … will show you basically what the report looks like. … The report I'm going to use is the task status report. … So I click that in the list. … I'm going to keep the usage data set to weeks … because we don't really use that for a WBS. … Then I can just go ahead and click view. … By the way, you do have to have Visio installed … in order to see those Visio templates. … Well, when you click view what happens …
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4/13/2021Released
1/9/2018Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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