The risk management discussion and reading is particularly helpful in its discussion of how to determine the relative importance of any individual risk. the "expected value" computation and the risk profile discussion help to quantify the sometimes vague nature of some risk.
Condition and consequence are also useful categories to apply when considering risk.
But perhaps the two most important ideas in Ch. 5 are:
*Project management is risk management
*Cast a wide net for potential risks - ask a lot of questions of a lot of people.
Ch. 6
Most of my work with WBS has been in developing training and learning programs. I often use 'functional' categories (logistics; materials; schedule; audience; etc) at the beginning of the planning to brainstorm tasks and work packages.
For the overall quality marker, I start with the outcomes - behavioral and/or competency changes that can be observed and/or tested. My interest is always how well folks can apply ideas and skills following exposure to the content or ideas. Those behaviors then form the targets against which the content/activities/etc. can be evaluated.
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