Question:

(a) The Local Government Service Commission has advertised a post of "CLERK" on the L'Express newspaper on the April 1, 2004. The closing date for the submission of the application form is dated for the April 24, 2004.

You are hereby requested to design a WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE for this particular post detailing from the origination of the idea until the selection and approval of the candidate.

(b) Harvey Maylor states :

"The further into the future a set of events , the more difficult they are to estimate , there will be a higher degree of uncertainty and more inputs to the estimates have to be treated as variable rather than constants."

Describe the role and nature of estimation in Project Management.