Message : DIRECTIONS The assignment focuses on your own understanding of the team's group project. Early in the conceptual phase of a new product, team members should begin to think about all of the things that need to be done to progress from the casual discussions about the product, to product deployment and life cycle servicing. There are many ways to approach and solve such problems, and therefore there are many acceptable solutions to your problem. Each individual team members approach will most likely be different based upon their own skill set, knowledge about the product and confidence level they have in the ability to build, deploy and service it. In this exercise, you are required to watch the Blackboard lecture on Work Breakdown structures. You may want to view other approaches about WBS development on the Internet. In your 3 – 4 pages, I will be looking for a WBS Chart, a WBS Table and written explanations that are not obvious from your two diagrams. Since you're project is still in the conceptual phase, the paper should be based upon your current understanding of the how the product should be developed and supported. I assume this view will change later as you integrate your thinking with others and the team becomes more knowledgeable through their feasibility research and discussions. After reading your paper, I should be able to get a sense for how you would partition the work tasks to accomplish the project. You will have to identify tasks at a very high level in order to fit them into the 3 -4 double spaced, 12 pt font, pages. This is not a test of your technical knowledge, but an exercise to demonstrate your comprehension of how to decompose ambiguous (not completely defined) problems and describe the work tasks needed to complete them. This is an important methodology used in innovation and new product development.