Understanding work breakdown structure

Whenever I think of WBS, I think about a very elderly person in our family (no more), who is a born project manager. For every wedding in our joint family, he used to come a couple of days in advance and voluntarily take charge of the whole show. First thing he does was to make a list of all the things that need to be done like food arrangements, travel arrangements, garlands, decorations... the list was not very big, that means, he was not breaking it to the minutest (activity) level. The decomposition stopped somewhere in between the high level scope and the lowest level, which are the activities. Now I realize that, being a great manager, he stopped exercising control at a work package level.
Even without any formal training, he knew the importance of work breakdown structure (WBS). Without a WBS, it is very difficult to get an accurate estimate.

Key points about WBS
A work breakdown structure (WBS) gives the break up of work. It does not give the sequence of work and the time lines.
The lowest level in the WBS is known as work packages
8-80 rule suggests that work packages should be between 8 hours and 80 hours chunks of work. For smaller projects it should be towards 8 hours and for larger projects, it should be towards 80 hours or anything in between.
WBS dictionaries are used to provide additional information about the work packages.

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[adydent1967]

You might want to edit the final couple of minutes too... nice desktop but think you may have finished the presentation by this stage I'm assuming camtasia was not what you wanted to cover.

[adydent1967]

Love the music at 5.50 onwards... spotify on in the background... it's so funky but does get in the way of the presentation. Maybe you could add some new voice over to the file.

[mudrat50]

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[MyVcs]

Please share a cleaned up version of this presentation. I was able to understand till 5.50, but nothing later. Appreciate for your effort.

[givirus]

Started out so well! Where did this music come from??

[tpkish1]

You were doing so well. What happened? This is the funniest most random surprise that has happened to me all day. Thank you!

[samsun01]

is this a music video or a tutorial?