PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

1. It is what you do to make sure that your project includes all the work relevant to achieving the project’s objectives. It’s around controlling what’s included in the project and what isn’t.

2. Term scope can refer to:

   • Product Scope
     • Features and functions that characterize a product, service or result
   • Project Scope
     • Work performed to deliver a product, service or result with specified features and functions

3. PROCESSES

   • PLAN SCOPE MANAGEMENT
     • Creating a scope management plan that documents how the project scope will be definedm validated and controlled
     • INPUTS
       • Project management plan
       • Project charter
       • Enterprise environmental factors
       • Organizational process assets
     • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
       • Expert judgment
       • Meetings
     • OUTPUTS
       • Scope management plan
       • Requirements management plan
   • COLLECT REQUIREMENTS
     • Determining, documenting and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives
     • INPUTS
       • Scope management plan
       • Requirements management plan
       • Stakeholder management plan
       • Project charter
       • Stakeholder register
     • OUTPUTS
       • Requirements traceability metrix
       • Requirements documentation
     • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
       • Interviews
       • Focus group
       • Facilitated workshops
       • Group creativity techniques
       • Group decision-making techniques
       • Questionnaires and surveys
       • Observations
       • Prototypes
       • Benchmarking
       • Context diagrams
       • Document analysis
   • DEFINE SCOPE
     • Developing a detailed description of the project and product
     • INPUTS
       • Scope management plan
       • Project charter
       • Requirements documentation
       • Organizational process assets
     • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
       • Expert judgment
       • Product analysis
       • Alternatives generation
       • Facilitated workshops
     • OUTPUTS
       • Project scope statement
       • Project documents updates
   • VALIDATE SCOPE
     • Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
     • INPUTS
       • Project management plan
       • Requirements documentation
       • Requirements traceability matrix
       • Verified deliverables
       • Work performance data
     • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
       • Inspection
       • Group decision-making techniques
     • OUTPUTS
       • Accepted deliverables
       • Change requests
       • Work performance information
       • Project documents updates
   • CREATE WBS
     • Subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components
     • INPUTS
       • Organizational process assets
       • Scope management plan
       • Project scope statement
       • Requirements documentation
       • Enterprise environmental factors
     • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
       • Expert judgment
       • Decomposition
     • OUTPUTS
       • Scope baseline
       • Project documents updates
   • CONTROL SCOPE
     • Monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baselines
     • INPUTS
       • Project management plan
       • Requirements documentation
       • Requirements traceability matrix
       • Work performance data
       • Organizational process assets
     • TOOLS &TECHNIQUES
       • Variance analysis
     • OUTPUTS
       • Work performance information
       • Change requests
       • Project documents updates
       • Organizational process assets updates