WBS Dictionary

The WBS Dictionary describes each component of the WBS with milestones, deliverables, activities, scope, and sometimes dates, resources, costs, quality.

Used correctly, the WBS Dictionary becomes much more than a document that describes the work. It becomes a project kaleidoscope that allows you to look at your project data in an infinite number of ways.

The main application of the WBS dictionary is to define the work in detail to help create the product that will be obtained with the execution of the project. Work Packages are the lowest level of the WBS. They represent the list of tasks in order to produce the particular unit of work.