039_Define Scope

039_Define Scope

1. Scope Management Plan

2. Project Charter

3. Requirement Documentation

4. OPAs

   • Templates and form will help you to save the time

5. Project Scope Statement

   • Product Scope
   • Project Scope
   • Deliverables (for t he Product and the project)
   • Acceptance Criteria
   • What is NOT part of the Project (exclusions)
   • Assumptions and Contraints
   • Tells what work you are and are not going to do in the project
   • Approved project and product Scope for this project
   • You should identify areas where people requested scope but it was not approved to be included in the project
   • You should also clarify areas where the scope could easly be misundestood

6. Project Document Updates

   • It has to do with change control

7. Expert Judgement

   • Involve Many stakeholders
   • Even expert from outside the organization

8. Product Analysis

   • The purpose is to analyze the objectives and description of the product stated by the customer or sponsor an turn them into tangible deliverables

9. Generation of Alternative

10. Facilitated Workshop

    • Quantifiable goals
      • Specific project goals that you can meaure
      • makes it a lot easier for the team to plan for the work they have to do

11. Primarily Concerned with What is and is NOT in the project and ITs Deliverables

12. Any Additional information about Project Risk, Assumption and constraints to define the project and product scope

13. Will be Iterated according to project Process

    • Its purpose is always determine what scope is and is not in the project

14. IF the resulting schedule and budget do not meet the sponsor's or management's expectation for the project , the PM needs to balance the scope against the budget ,,schedule and other contration in the project

15. Realistic schedule and Budget that can achieve the projects agreed - to scope

16. Key reason this process is important on the exam: 1- PM complain about unrealistic schedules, but for the exam you need to understand that those issues are the PM faults because they have not done planning in an iterative way, PM must reconcile the Scope to the schedule and other project constrain to resolve the problem before work begin 2- PMs spend a large portion of their time , while the work is being done , looking for options to adjust the project and still meet the project schedule or budget . Therefore , all the tools used in planning to come up with a realistic schedule an budget , such as negotiating scope and fast tracking , are also major activities while the work is being done

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