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Working with work breakdown structure codes

Working with work breakdown structure codes

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Working with work breakdown structure codes

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A Work Breakdown Structure, also called a WBS, is the project management term for a hierarchy of tasks. By breaking tasks down in this way, project work is easy to assign, track and manage. To uniquely identify each task in your project, you'll need WBS codes. If you'll look at this view, you'll see the task ID column. Well, these numbers, the task IDs are not a WBS, because if you move tasks around, those task IDs change. And you really want WBS codes, for the most part, you want them to stay the same. So the easiest thing to do is to insert the WBS field into a table. So I right-click the task name heading, and choose insert column and then type WBS. Click the WBS field and now the codes are in this table. Well, this shows you that Project actually has a WBS numbering scheme behind the scenes. And it's just numbers at every level. So, planning move is at the top level, so it has a number of one. And you can see down here, construct and set up space has a number of two, because it's…

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