Innovative Mechanisms to Quicken Project Closure

Chi-Pong Wong is a seasoned supply chain strategist, program manager, service center manager and relations manager. He has published on leading online magazines and other popular journals. He earned a MA in Economics at SUNY Stony Brook and a MS in Computer Science at Duke University. He can be reached at Linkedin and [email protected].

  Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)  

More and more organizations are forced to begin their projects with partially defined objectives, insufficient budgets, limited resources and hurried turnarounds in order to get a head start to pull in their project end dates--and to avoid playing second fiddle to their competitions. To overcome these daunting constraints, the ability to swiftly define, initiate, plan, execute and close on a project amidst evolving requirements is key to quick product commercialization.

To succeed today, businesses cannot simply count on working harder with traditional methods, they also need to develop novel ways to further improve their capabilities and chances to conquer these formidable challenges. When an institution’s processes and employee proficiencies are mature, fine-tuning them might only produce minuscule enhancements. An avant-garde work breakdown structure (WBS) and gamification are two unorthodox tools able to generate notable advancement under this situation.

WBS…with Atypical Slicing and Dicing
Under normal circumstances, tasks were carved out based on common dissecting practices, manageability for outsourcing, interoperability of the fragments, company silos and team members’ capability, responsibility and availability. When a project has to start before all requirements fall in place to gain on schedule, an alternative fracturing approach might need …

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