What is Project scope?

What is Scope management?

What is Conceptual Development:

Successful conceptual development requires:

What is a Statement of Work (SOW)?

Work Breakdown Structure

Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) allows what:

Responsibility Assignment Matrix

Contractual Documentation
Most contracts contain 3 things:

What is Scope Reporting:

Project Closeout:

Exercise 1
a) Please explain what is meant by SMART project targets

b) Why is it useful to define project goals according to the SMART scheme

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Time Based

Exercise 2
Please transform the following project goal definition using the SMART technique:
“To have my race car repainted”

Project Scoping – using a Quad Chart

Exercise 3 - solution

Exercise 5
Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for your project using deliverables
that You have to define.
Your project: Reroofing a house
Number each activity based on levels
(1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, ..., 1.1.1,....1.1.1.1,…)

Exercise 6: RAM
What are the benefits of designing a Responsibility
Assignment Matrix (RAM) for a project?

Case Study: Project Management at Dotcom.com
Question 1:
How would you begin redesigning Dotcom.com’s project management processes
to minimize the problems they are experiencing with poor scope management?

Question 2:
How do the company’s consulting clients contribute to the problems with “scope
creep?” If you were to hold a meeting with a potential customer, what message
would you want them to clearly understand?

Question 3:
How do you balance the need to involve clients with the equally important need to
freeze project scope in order to complete the project in a timely fashion?

Question 4:
Why are configuration management and project change control so difficult to
perform in the midst of a complex software development project such as those
undertaken by Dotcom.com?