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Manage project plans

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Manage project plans

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- As you resolve to your course of action, there are some great tools that can help you manage your project plan, and these tools are built right into all of the popular project management software packages. In this movie, we'll learn how to use three of the most common tools, the work breakdown structure, the Gantt chart, and the network diagram. First, there's the work breakdown structure. A work breakdown structure, or WBS, provides an easy way to see step-by-step all of the work that needs to be done for a project. A WBS is a numbered list of your activities and deliverables. You'll usually see it organized as a vertical list, like an outline, but you might also see it laid out as a diagram that resembles an organizational chart. While the WBS shows a logical structure for the work, it's not very helpful in showing which activities are occurring at a particular time. You can show this with a horizontal time chart called a Gantt chart. The Gantt chart is just a vertical WBS with a…

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