WBS Software
Manage Your Project Deliverables Better
Visualize the scope of your projects and break them down into more manageable milestones with an easy-to-use visual platform designed for true team collaboration.
- Real-time collaboration to align cross-functional teams
- Multiple frameworks and templates for effective project planning
- Multiple app integrations to connect your project workflows
- Real-time collaboration to align cross-functional teams
- Multiple frameworks and templates for effective project planning
- Multiple app integrations to connect your project workflows
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Streamline Your Project Planning
Simple drag and drop tools to easily break down and visualize complex projects into manageable deliverables.
Multiple pre-made planning templates to plan, track, and manage your project activities, resources, and workflows.
Infinite canvas to centralize all project information and assets for easier decision-making.
Brainstorming tools like mind maps or post-it note walls to ideate, analyze, and plan around project initiatives.
Intuitive table, extensive shape libraries, and formatting capabilities to create text-based work breakdown structures, tabular structures, flowcharts, & more.
Make Informed Decisions Faster
Multiple app integrations to help you import and export project data across teams on different platforms.
Built-in tools to create dynamic and interactive presentations, reports, and dashboards for project stakeholders.
Import images and vectors to the canvas and embed documents with in-app previews to provide more context to your work breakdown structures with relevant resources.
Create custom databases for any type of data from team charters to project deliverables.
Connect All Teams Across the Board
Multi-user collaboration with asynchronous editing to collaborate around project planning and tracking with your team.
@mention comments to direct people to get things done or clarify things and comment threads to have discussions and follow-ups on the same canvas.
Multiple access levels and roles to streamline managing, sharing, editing, and reviewing your ideas and project plans.
Workspace level status tracking; mark workspaces as Draft, In Progress, Final, Archived, etc. to maintain workflows and to keep everyone in sync.
Smart notifications to stay updated on changes other stakeholders make to your project plans.
A Better Way to Run Your Projects
Add detailed docs, attachments, links and more with notes on each deliverable on the WBS to capture details and the big picture in a single space.
Prioritization grids to visually rank ideas for optimal effort and impact before implementation.
Migrate data from your project management tools to visualize on the canvas and identify overlaps and gaps in project requirements.
Assign tasks to complete items in context. Link tasks to or from other project management tools seamlessly.
Set estimated times and due dates for tasks and allocate resources based on availability and skill sets.
What Is a Work Breakdown Structure?
In project management and systems engineering, a work breakdown structure (WBS) is a deliverable-oriented breakdown of a project into smaller parts. In a work breakdown structure, the team’s work is organized into manageable sections.
How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure?
- Get your team together to identify the deliverables and sub-deliverables of the project. Identify the overarching goal you are trying to achieve. It could be anything from building a complex structure to creating a new software feature.
- Use Creately’s templates library to obtain documents such as the project charter, project scope statement, and project scope management plan to support Work Breakdown Structure.
- Divide the overarching project into smaller and smaller pieces, but stop before you list out all the actions to be taken. Instead of listing out actions, think of concrete deliverables.
- Start by dividing your project into project phases, specific large deliverables, or subtasks.
- Create a WBS dictionary that includes the definition and scope of the various elements within your work breakdown structure.
- Export your analysis in JPEG, SVG, PNG or PDF formats or share with colleagues for real-time feedback collection.
- Present your analysis to key stakeholders with Creately’s advanced presentation capabilities. Share an edit/review diagram link with others so anyone can easily access it to monitor the progress.