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A document that provides detailed information about deliverables, activity, and scheduling of each component in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
The WBS Dictionary lists milestones, deliverables, activities, scope, and occasionally dates, resources, costs, and quality for each WBS component.
One of three components that make up the scope baseline is the WBS Dictionary:
The project will be unable to measure or monitor scope performance without a WBS Dictionary because it lacks a complete baseline.
When used correctly, the WBS Dictionary becomes much more than a task description document. It transforms into a project kaleidoscope, allowing you to view your project data in an infinite number of different ways.
The main application of the WBS dictionary is to define the work in detail to help create the product that will be obtained with the execution of the project. Work Packages are the lowest level of the WBS. They represent the list of tasks in order to produce the particular unit of work.
Work Breakdown Structure
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