Scope statement
A project scope defines the extent in which the project will go in undertaking the project. It defines the activities that will be carried out. In this paper, the project that is being defined is that of expanding the store of the organization so that new clients will be added to the organization. This way, new area of sales will be got, and increased sales will be realized. There will be the procurement of new materials in the organization for the new store to be erected. There will also be automation of the processes in the organization. This requires buying software and hardware, and also installing the hardware and software. There will be the need to ensure that a feasibility study is carried out for setting up the new store. There will also be the selection of staff that will work on the project. The staff will comprise of technical staff and management who will ensure that the daily tasks of the project are undertaken well. In the project, there will be the feasibility assessment that entails getting the requirements of the users. After all the requirements have been set, it will then be time to undertake the process.
Work breakdown structure
A work breakdown structure is a project management tool that is used to give details of tasks that need to be completed. It is simpler and easier to understand the requirements of a project in terms of resources and skills when they have been broken down into smaller levels. The level of description provided by the WBS makes easier to approximate the cost and the staff that will be required to undertake the project. It is also easier to identify potential risks that are associated with a project with the use of work packages (Brotherton, Fried, & Norman, 2008).
There are many benefits that come with a WBS. Stakeholders get associated with the project execution process because of the fact that they get to understand the tasks that will be carried out. They will know to the complexity of the project and the constraints and requirements. The members of the team will easily be assigned tasks basing on the level that has been established in the WBS. The levels can easily be assigned the right staff and resources because their complexity is known. Team members are able to understand the role that their task have in the overall project and will know what to do (Forest & Fischer, 2009).
Work packages are also important in the realization of work boundary of each team. Conflicts and other problems associated with poor communication are likely to be reduced. It provides the basis for estimation of staff requirement, cost and duration of the entire project. Scope can easily be identified as well, and as such make it easier for managers to manage and control it, while ensuring that the staff work within the required boundary. This will help the team to focus better on what need to be done, therefore, resulting in high quality results and improved management (Forest & Fischer, 2009).
Determination of resources and staffing requirements for large and complex projects is a hard and time-consuming task. However, breaking down the project into smaller work packages and pieces easier to estimate the entire requirements by summing up all the individual requirements of each package. This way, the WBS can be used, as a basic worksheet, to determine project team staffing needs (Brotherton, Fried, & Norman, 2008).
References
Brotherton, S. A., Fried, R. T., & Norman, E. S. (2008). Applying the work breakdown structure to the project management lifecycle. Web.
Forest, P., & Fischer, M. (2009, April). Case study: Scope-cost-time integrated model with work. Web.