Work Breakdown Structure

Left this morning to head up to Company XYZ in South Seattle with Rick at about 6:30AM. We arrived at the plant we will be repositioning and set up in the conference room.

Rick led the first several hours with a presentation and some training materials, preparing the team for the process ahead with techniques, verbiage, and risks. We have a team of approximately 11, so it is on the large size of average. We broke for lunch at about 11:40; it was boxed lunches from www.gretchensshoebox.com, they were absolutely delicious. I kept the minutes during the training and idea generation period of the meeting; during the second half, we had a little bit more training, prepping for the actual WBS process.

I had printed large sheets of butcher paper, one for each facility function, and each function divided into areas such as "Prep for Occupancy", and other different stages of the individual function's move. We hung these on the wall, and function owners wrote their activities onto sticky notes and stuck them to the butcher paper in approximate chronological order.

We ended the meeting at 3:00 PM, and will resume tomorrow morning at 8:00AM. I will send the minutes to the team members once I obtain their e-mail addresses.