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This webpage from Lucidchart Blog provides an in-depth guide on how to create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and discusses its importance in project management. The WBS is a tool used to break down large projects into smaller, manageable tasks, focusing on deliverables rather than individual actions. The benefits of a WBS include better cost estimation, establishing dependencies, scheduling, role clarification, progress tracking, and risk identification. The steps to create a WBS include defining the project's scope and objectives, breaking these down into key phases and deliverables, and further organizing these deliverables into work packages or tasks. It is crucial to ensure that the WBS includes 100% of the work necessary to complete the goal, that tasks are not duplicated, and that the focus remains on outcomes rather than actions. The article also provides an example of a WBS for building a house, discusses different formats for creating a WBS (like hierarchical table, outline, tabular view, or tree diagram), and introduces the concept of a WBS dictionary, which provides descriptions of each work package. Lucidchart offers several templates for creating a WBS, and the article describes how to create a WBS using Microsoft Office with Lucidchart's free integrations. The page concludes with a brief description of Lucidchart, a cloud-based diagramming application used by various top businesses worldwide, which can also be used to create a WBS.