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Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

SHADAV MOHAMMAD ANSARI PMO| ITC INFOTECH INDIA PVT. Ltd. New Delhi, Delhi, India

How Detailed Should A Statement Of Work Be?
What is difference between MSA and SoW?

Posted: Mar 2, 2019 9:32 AM

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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States

Mar 05, 2019 12:40 PM

Replying to Steve Ratkaj

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Interesting. In our line of work (defence procurement), a SOW is very detailed as it must describe "ALL" work to be done, including technical/ performance requirements, and validation/ acceptance criteria. SOWs here can easily be several 100's of pages. For example, I'm just finishing a partial WBS for contract deliverables on a "small" CAN$400M contract that contains over 2000 WBS elements.

It's interesting that you have that much detail. We also have extensive SOW as a supplier to defense contracts, but they would typically call out a specification control drawing change, or perhaps a new/revised requirement rather than include the detailed requirements. Similarly we would call out defining test plans, supporting tests, etc. and but not the actual criteria.

That's one of the challenges I see in the future with digital transformation efforts, is that when exchanging data between parties, it can be organized very differently even in similar industries.

Posted: Mar 6, 2019 1:08 PM

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