Editing Product breakdown structure (section)

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{{short description|Tool for analysing, documenting and communicating the outcomes of a project}}
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In [[project management]] under the [[PRINCE2]] methodology, a '''product breakdown structure''' ('''PBS''') is a tool for analysing, documenting and communicating the outcomes of a project, and forms part of the [[product based planning]] technique.

The PBS provides "an exhaustive, hierarchical [[tree structure]] of [[deliverable]]s that make up the project, arranged in whole-part relationship" (Haughey, 2015).<ref>Duncan Haughey. (2015) ‘Project Management Tools’, Project Smart. Available from: https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/project-management-tools.php</ref>