Product Development Workflow Management Based on Work Breakdown Structure

摘要

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is generally seen as a way to organize work hierarchically so that project managers can control performance by subdividing the project into smaller tasks. In this paper, a WBS approach is proposed to facilitate the representation and management of the tasks and relationship of activities in complex product development projects. For each task, a process model is constructed with detailed activity breakdown. Workflow management implements the process models of the tasks. It also provides up-to-date information for monitoring. In this way, the performance of tasks is constantly tracked and managed. The hierarchical structure of the WBS creates much flexibility in workflow management at the early stages of a product development project, when there is less clarity on the product and activity structures.