What Software do you use to create your WBS?

Schedule Management Scheduling Scope Management Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)

Jose Mainardi Project Engineer| General Mills Marion, Ia, United States

And do you have a way to integrate the schedules within the WBS into Microsoft Project? I have come accross videos of people integreating Visio WBS to MS Project but it doesn't look very intuitive and I'm curious what this community does.

Posted: May 22, 2019 3:29 PM

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Wade Harshman Scrum Master| GDIT Indianapolis, In, United States

I've made the WBS in Project, but I found it works better to create it in Word (which happens to support the numbering format quite nicely). The Word document is a conversation piece, and it worked well because it's easy to share, easy to read, and easy to edit.

I've never tried to import a Word doc into Project. I assume it won't work, but honestly I never even thought to try. I just did the work myself and felt satisfied that my WBS was better.

Posted: May 22, 2019 4:13 PM

Juan Miguel Otero Boschetti Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

I usually use MindMapper to create my WBS. It´s a very easy program to use and you can export your WBS into Microsoft Project.

Posted: May 22, 2019 5:01 PM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

WBS outlines can be copied & pasted from MS Word into MS Project and MSP will respect the indents...

Posted: May 22, 2019 5:52 PM

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

you can check smartsheet

Posted: May 23, 2019 12:06 AM

Eduard Hernandez

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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

You could use XMind to draft the WBS backbone and then translate this to MS Project, where you add further detail.

Posted: May 23, 2019 3:45 AM

Stanley Oranika Director Finance & Strategy| Virtus Deus F.C.T, Abuja, Nigeria

Try Edraw Max Breakdown Structure Software. Regards.

Posted: May 23, 2019 6:03 AM

Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

MSP, Excel

Posted: May 23, 2019 7:52 AM

Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada

I have use spreadsheet and word processor, it makes it easy to exchange with anybody in the project while developing the WBS.

Posted: May 23, 2019 9:06 AM

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