Project Scope Management(impt points)

Project Scope
Statement Contents– The project’s deliverables
– The work required to create
deliverables
– Project’s major objectives.
– Provides common understanding
of all stakeholders.
– Inclusions and exclusions of
project scope.

Project scope statement• Project objectives
• Product scope
• Project requirements
• Project boundaries
• Project deliverables
• Product acceptance criteria
• Project constraints / assumptions
• Initial risks
• Schedule milestones
• Fund limitation
• Cost estimate
• Project configuration management requirement

Create WBS• Process
– “…is a process for subdividing the
major project deliverables and
project work into smaller and more
manageable components.”
• For Inputs / Outputs / Tools and
Techniques Refer Figure 5-5 of
PMBOK® Guide Third Edition


Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)• Deliverable oriented
• Detailed definition of a project
work
• Project components may be
products or services
• Organizes and defines the total
scope of project


Validation of WBS– Identification of all elements at top level
– Lower level items necessary and
sufficient
– Stakeholders Buy In
– Facilitates scheduling, budgeting and
assignment of responsibility
– Too much or too little visibility and
control
– Facilitates generation of status reports


Using the WBS to
Estimate Cost• Project manager establishes work
requirements by defining the
– What -
– When - sequence
– Why - dependencies
• Functional managers estimate cost
by determining
– How - equipment and methods
– Who - type and level of expertise
– Where - location, department


WBS Dictionary• WBS dictionary contains…
– A detailed contents of components
– Work packages and control accounts
– Code of account identifier
– Contract information
– Quality requirements
– Statement of work
– Schedule milestones
– Departmental or subcontractor Vendors and
their products, Services
– Any other identifiable resource related to WBS

Scope Baseline• The approved detailed scope
statement, + its associated WBS
+ WBS dictionary

Other ‘Breakdown
structures’• RBS
– Risk breakdown structure
• OBS
– Organizational Breakdown Structure
• RBS
– Resource Breakdown Structure
• BOM
– Bill of Materials

Scope Verification• Process
– “…is a process necessary for
formalizing acceptance of
completed project deliverables.”
• For Inputs / Outputs / Tools and
Techniques Refer Figure 5-9 of
PMBOK® Guide Third Edition


Scope Control• Process
– “…is concerned with influencing
the factors that create scope
changes and controlling the
impact of those changes.”
• For Inputs / Outputs / Tools and
Techniques Refer Figure 5-10 of
PMBOK® Guide Third Edition