PMP Practice Question: Process — Predictive, Medium
Your project team has completed the WBS decomposition for a 14-month infrastructure project. During the Define Activities process, a senior team member suggests that some work packages are still too large and should be broken down further into activities. Another team member argues that the current work packages are appropriate and further decomposition would create unnecessary detail. The work packages in question represent 3-4 weeks of work each. As the project manager, how should you handle this situation?
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