Definition

Neutral work breakdown structure that can be used more than once and serves as a template for creating operative work breakdown structures.

Use

For future projects with the same structure, you can use standardized work breakdown structures as a template to create operative work breakdown structures or other standard work breakdown structures. This not only saves time when creating a project in the system, but also in the design phase.

A standard work breakdown structure contains the individual elements (WBS elements) that structure the standard project as well as general organizational data.

You can link standard networks with standard work breakdown structures and so create templates not only for the organization of a project but also for its processing.

When you use a standard network that is assigned to a standard WBS to create an operative network an operative WBS is also created. However if you create an operative WBS from a standard WBS to which a standard network is assigned, an operative network is not created.