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The approach links organizational processes to planning by enabling stable process performance and cumulative long-term benefits. 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Developing a project plan without incorporating how an organization doing things – i.e., organizational culture – may lead to project failure. To ensure stable process performance and to benefit from organizational culture, it is crucial that organizational processes be taken into account in project planning. Organizational processes enable stable process performance across an organization and provide a basis for cumulative, longterm benefits to the organization. In proposing a systematic approach that supports bi-directional transformation between processes and the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), we propose Process2WBS and WBS2Process to assist project managers in project planning with an organization’s set of standard processes. Process2WBS consumes processes and transforms them into a WBS with Design Structure Matrix (DSM) analysis, and WBS2Process transforms the WBS with project-specific information into executable processes expressed in XPDL.  \nKeywords: process management, project management, project planning, design structure matrix  \n1 . Introduction  \nThe Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a hierarchical list of project tasks that defines the scope of a project, which translates into effort, timeline, and budget. Taking the time to map out the WBS saves significant effort in project execution by helping avoid rework and false starts [1–3] . An important WBS planning objective is project scheduling. Although considerable research [4] has been focused on project scheduling, little work has accounted for organizational processes in the project planning phase. An organization’s set of standard processes  \nprovides project managers with knowledge sharing and lessons learned. Developing a project plan without incorporating how an organization does things, namely, organizational culture, may cause a project to fail. To ensure stable process performance and to benefit from organizational culture, it is crucial that organizational processes be taken into account in project planning. Organizational processes enable stable process performance across the organization and provide a basis for cumulative project development experience. Continuous improvement of organizational processes also provides long-term benefits to the organization.  \nA process is a set of activities connected to control nodes providing decision support and flow logic. Dependence among activities is complex in a project process. Managing complex dependence among activities is thus a competency required for successful process execution. Conventional process management tools provide process representation graphically, however, not allowing for common feedback and cyclic activity dependence. The Design Structure Matrix (DSM) devised by D.V. Steward [5] serves as system analysis for representing processes and their relationships in a square matrix and for analyzing feedback and cyclic process interaction. The DSM is a square matrix with identical row and column labels to identify dependence between tasks","cbCaia9kUf8sUdCU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia9kUf8sUdCU","pdf",2357041,"English","# 1. Introduction\n## Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)\n## Design Structure Matrix (DSM)\n## Process2WBS and WBS2Process Overview","[{\"question\":\"What is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) used for in project planning?\",\"answer\":\"WBS provides a hierarchical list of project tasks that defines scope, which translates into effort, timeline, and budget and supports project execution planning.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are organizational processes important for project success?\",\"answer\":\"Organizational processes help ensure stable process performance across the organization and support long-term benefits through cumulative development experience.\"},{\"question\":\"How do Process2WBS and WBS2Process work together?\",\"answer\":\"Process2WBS transforms organizational processes into a WBS analyzed with DSM, and WBS2Process uses the WBS with project-specific information to generate executable processes in XPDL.\"}]","Integrating Process and Work Breakdown Structure with Design Structure Matrix | PDF",1789156376]