Project Scope Management(important points)

Purpose of PlanningProcesses
– Facilitate later accomplishment
– Ensure project wide integration
– Monitor change effectively
– Provide decision support
information to stakeholders
– Can be updated by iterative
planning activities
Introduction To Scope
Management• Ensures that the project includes
all the work required and only the
work required, to complete the
project successfully
• Scope Refers to
– Product scope: Features and
functions of the product
– Project scope: Work required to
create and deliver that product

Scope ManagementProcesses
• Five Processes
– Scope Planning
– Scope Definition
– Create WBS
– Scope Verification
– Scope Control

Advantages of Scope
Management• Avoidance of unnecessary work
• Beneficial in planning and
controlling the project
• All stakeholders arrive at a
common understanding about
what is to be done in the project
and what is not
• Avoids Scope Creep



Scope Planning• Process
– “…is the process for creating scope
management plan that documents how
the project scope will be defined,
verified, controlled and how the WBS
will be created and defined.”
• For Inputs / Outputs / Tools and
Techniques Refer Figure 5-3 of
PMBOK® Guide Third Edition


Components of scope
management plan• Scope management plan defines the
processes to:
– Prepare a detailed scope statement
– Enable the creation, maintenance and
approval of WBS
– Specify how formal verification and
acceptance of deliverables will be
obtained
– Control how requests for changes to
detailed scope statement will be
processed

Scope Definition• Process
– “…is a process for developing a
detailed project scope statement
as the basis for future project
decisions.”
• For Inputs / Outputs / Tools and
Techniques Refer Figure 5-4 of
PMBOK® Guide Third Edition

Tools and Techniques• Product Analysis
– Different techniques used in
Product Analysis are
• Product Breakdown
• System Analysis
• Value Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Value Engineering
• Functional Analysis

Tools and Techniques• Alternatives Identification
– Means to find alternative solutions to handle the
scope.
– Also supportive to make or buy decisions.
– Different techniques used:
• Brain Storming
• Lateral Thinking
• Stakeholder Analysis
– All the implicit expectations if identified should
be explicitly excluded from the project scope