Your team is planning the scope for a hybrid project to roll out a new customer self-service portal. During a decomposition workshop, team members propose several techniques to break the work into manageable pieces so that estimates and responsibilities can be assigned. One stakeholder suggests building a detailed Gantt chart at this stage to help everyone visualize the work. According to PMI best practices, which technique mentioned should NOT be used for breaking down the project scope and is therefore better deferred until after scope decomposition is complete?
A Work Breakdown Structure and a product backlog are both decomposition tools that organize deliverables or requirements into smaller components, directly supporting scope definition. User-story mapping is likewise used in Agile teams to break down epics into coherent user stories that describe the required functionality. A Gantt chart, however, is primarily a bar-chart representation of the project schedule-illustrating task start and finish dates, sequencing, and dependencies-so it is not a scope-decomposition technique and should be developed after the scope has been broken down.
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