Work breakdown structure
Also called: WBS, Work breakdown
Splitting a job into small tasks that can be estimated and tracked one by one.
Definition
A work breakdown structure (WBS) lists the tasks needed to finish a piece of work, each small enough to picture (roughly an hour to a day). Estimating the tasks and adding them up is more accurate than guessing one big number.
In practice
"Test the tipping feature" becomes: read the story, design cases, set up test data, run on iPhone, run on Android, report bugs, retest and regression, write the summary.
Learn it in context
Lessons that use this term.