Editor's Note | Introduction | Step 1: Explain the Project Plan
Step 2: Define Roles and Responsibilities | Step 3: Hold a Kickoff Meeting
Step 4: Develop a Scope Statement | Step 5: Develop Scope Baseline
Step 6: Develop the Schedule and Cost Baselines
Step 7: Create Baseline Management Plans | Step 8: Develop the Staffing Plan
Step 9: Analyze Project Quality and Risks | Step 10: Create a Communications Plan

Step 5: Develop Scope Baseline

Once the deliverables are confirmed in the Scope Statement, they need to be developed into a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which is a decomposition of all the deliverables in the project. This deliverable WBS forms the scope baseline and has these elements. The WBS:

• Identifies all the deliverables produced on the project, and therefore, identifies all the work to be done.
• Takes large deliverables and breaks them into a hierarchy of smaller deliverables. That is, each deliverable starts at a high level and is broken into subsequently lower and lower levels of detail.
• The lowest level is called a "work package" and can be numbered to correspond to activities and tasks.
• The WBS is often thought of as a task breakdown, but activities and tasks are a separate breakdown, identified in the next step.

Step 4: Develop a Scope Statement

Step 6: Develop the Schedule and Cost Baselines

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