Work Package Definition

What does Work Package mean?

More and more projects are run with enterprise architecture. New terms in project management and risk management have entered the field of EA. Work Package is one of those terms.

Definition

A Work Package is a subset of a project that can be assigned for separate execution.

Usage

To make projects less risky.

Symbol

The symbol for a Work Package is a shovel.

Work Packages in Projects.

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Examples

Examples of Work Packages are:

  • Create a design
  • Build a system
  • Test a system

Further reading

Are you interested in reading more about this? Here we have a Wiki page about Work packages in projects.

Our intention is not to provide a complete dictionary of enterprise architecture here but to provide only the most frequently used words in the field.

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