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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
Volume 1 no. 2 (July 2015)
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WP2.1 Activities could have a proper internal
organization (OBS), schedule, WBS,
Figure 2 PERT and it is not infrequent that at
the beginning of the project is
The proposal preparation follows the required the Project Management
standard of Project Management Plan to the WP leaders to be
methodologies with the identification integrated within the Master Project
of the WBS (figure 2), the study logic, Management Plan of the overall
the schedule, the Pert diagram the project. This is the case of big Projects
organization of the consortium (OBS). in which till 98 partners could be
In this project’s typology is suggested involved simultaneously and a very
by the EC that all the partners strong and regulated organization is
contribute to the final results of the mandatory (the “Think-Big” approach
projects till the lower level of WBS, of EC)!
indeed it is a standard approach that These very big projects could be
each WP foresees a WP leader and a considered as “Programs”: within their
number of partners of the Consortium duration several parallel lines of
participate to the development of the technological research are active
WP with small tasks. In this view each and in some cases each line
WP could be considered as a “sub- contributes differently to different
project” that participates to the
common goal of the project. 40
Depending on the size of the project
and of the Consortium each WP
