Project Scope Management Overview

Scope Management

What does project scope management include?
Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.

What is project scope management primarily concerned with?
Project scope management is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project.

What are the processes of the Project Scope Management?
There are 5 processes in Project Scope Management. They are:
1) Scope Planning
2) Scope Definition
3) Create WBS
4) Scope Verification
5) Scope Control


What is Scope Planning?
Scope Planning: Scope Planning is creating the project scope management plan that documents how the scope will be defined, verified, controlled and how the work breakdown structure (WBS) will be created and defined.

What is Scope Definition?
Scope Definition: Developing a detailed project scope statement as the basis for future project decisions.

What is definition for "Creat WBS"?
Creat WBS: is subdividing the major projeect deliverables and project work into smaller and more manageable components.

What is Scope Verification?
Scope Verification: Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.

What is Scope Control?
Scope Control: Controlling changes to the project scope.


Points:

• The processes interact with each other and the processes in other knowledge areas as well.
  
• Each process can involve effort from one or more persons or groups of persons, based on the needs of the project.
• Each process occurs at least once in every project and occurs in one or more project phases, if the project is divided into phases.
• Although the processes are presented as discrete components with well defined interfaces, in practice they can overlap and interact in ways not detailed in PMBOK.

What does the term scope refer to in a project context?
In the project context, the term scope can refer to:

• Product Scope: The features and functions that characterize a product, service or result.
• Project Scope: The work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product, service or result with the specified features and functions.

Points:

• The project scope management processes, and their associated tools and techniques, vary by application area, are usually defined as part of the project life cycle and are documented in Scope Management Plan.

Where are the project scope management processes and their associated tools and techniques documented.
The project scope management processes, and their associated tools and techniques, vary by application area, are usually defined as part of the project life cycle, and documented in the project scope management plan.

What is the scope baseline for the project?
The approved detailed project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary are the scope baseline for the project.

What is the scope baseline for the project?
The scope baseline for the project are:

• The approved detailed project scope statement
• WBS
• WBS dictionary

What is the difference between measurement of completion of Project Scope and completion of Product Scope?
Completion of project scope is measured against the project management plan, the project scope statement, and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary.
But, the product scope is measured against the product requirements.


What is the completion of project scope measured against?
The completion of project scope is measured against:

• Project management plan
• Project Scope Statement
• WBS
• WBS dictionary

What is the completion of product scope measured against?
The completion of project scope statement is measured against product requirements.

Point:

• Project Scope Management needs to be well integrated with the other Knowledge Area processes, so that the work of the project will sresult in delivery of the specified product scope.

Project Scope Management Overview:

Scope Planning

• Inputs:
1. Enterprise Environmental factors
2. Organizational Process Assets
3. Project Charter
4. Preliminary Project Scope Statement
5. Project management Plan
   
   
• Tools & Techniques:
1. Expert Judgment
2. Templates, Forms, Standards
   
   
• Outputs:
1. Project Scope Management Plan.

Scope Definition

• Inputs:
1. Organizational process assets
2. Project Charter
3. Preliminary Project Scope Statement
4. Project Scope Management Plan
5. Approved change requests
   
   
• Tools & Techniques
1. Product Analysis
2. Alternatives Identification
3. Expert Judgment
4. Stakeholder Analysis
   
   
• Output:
1. Project Scope Statement
2. Requested changes
3. Project Scope Management Plan (Updates)
   

Create WBS

• Inputs:
1. Organizational process assets
2. Project Scope Statement
3. Project Scope Management Plan
4. Approved Change Requests
   
   
• Tools & Techniques:
1. Work breakdown structure templates
2. Decomposition
   
   
• Outputs:
1. Project Scope Statement (Updates)
2. Work breakdown structure
3. WBS dictionary
4. Scope baseline
5. Project Scope Management Plan (Updates)
6. Requested changes

Scope Verification

• Inputs:
1. Project Scope Statement
2. WBS dictionary
3. Project Scope Management Plan
4. Deliverables
   
   
• Tools & Techniques:
1. Inspection
   
   
• Outputs:
1. Accepted deliverables
2. Requested changes
3. Recommended corrective actions

Scope Control

• Inputs:
1. Project scope statement
2. Work breakdown structure
3. WBS dictionary
4. Project Scope Management Plan
5. Preformance reports
6. Approved change requests
7. Work performance information
   
   
• Tools & Techniques:
1. Change control system
2. Variance anallysis
3. Replanning
4. Configuration Management System
   
   
• Outputs:
1. Project Scope Statement (Updates)
2. Work breakdown structure (Updates)
3. WBS dictionary updates (Updates)
4. Scope baseline (Updates)
5. Requested changes
6. Recommended corrective action
7. Organizational process assets (Updates)
8. Project Management Plan (Updates)