Development of Inventory System Project

Development of inventory system Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Development of Inventory System "Development of Inventory System Project" Please respond to the following: -Critique the WBS created by the private company.  Brotherton, Fried and Norman (2008) pointed out that a work breakdown structure (WBS) is simply a model of the work that is to be performed in a project, and it is organized in a hierarchical structure. They added that WBS shows the amount of work, the costs involved in the project and the time required, and it forms the basis for coordination and organization in the project. In my critique of the WBS created by the private company (Kloppenborg et al., 2012); I can identify various errors with this WBS. First, Level 1 “Project Management” has six Level 2 components, which should have been further sub-divided into Level 3 components to show a clear project scope and work assignments. Secondly, some of the deliverables have not been arranged, as they should be in terms of importance. For instance, Level 2 deliverable 2.2 “Problem Area Identification” is a higher-deliverable compared to Level 2 deliverable 2.1 “Initial Assessment.” As such, there arrangement is not the correct representation of the project work because the initial assessment should come after problem area identification, not the other way round. The final error is the lack of “Closeout” deliverable at the end of the WBS. -Recommend three or four alterations you would make to the WBS and why. The first alteration is to sub-divide some of Level 1 components “Project Management” into various sub-tasks. For instance, 1.1 Charter would be b...