Bill DuncanPresident, Project Management Partners
Consultant and trainer; primary author of the first edition of the PMBoK…
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The first time I taught a class in project management was well before the days of PowerPoint and LCD projectors. In fact, my initial set of overhead slides was created by hand since color printers were more expensive than manual labor. As a result, I tried to keep the amount of text down to an absolute minimum. So on the slide that introduced the concept of a work breakdown structure, I used the acronym “WBS” without ever spelling the term out in full.
I was well aware of the potential for confusion, and I am pretty sure that I explained what the acronym stood for. But either I hadn’t, or I hadn’t done it very well, because not long after I began to …
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