Project Scope Management

• Project Scope Management ensures the project includes all and only the work required for successful completion.
• It focuses on defining and controlling what is included and excluded from the project.

Plan Scope Management

• Creates a scope management plan detailing how project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled.
• Inputs: Project management plan, project charter, enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets.
• Tools and Techniques: Expert judgment and meetings.
• Outputs: Scope management plan, requirements management plan.

Collect Requirements

• Determines, documents, and manages stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives.
• Inputs: Scope management plan, requirements management plan, stakeholder management plan, project charter, stakeholder register.
• Tools & Techniques: Interviews, focus groups, facilitated workshops, group creativity/decision-making, questionnaires, observations, prototypes, benchmarking, context diagrams, and document analysis.
• Outputs: Requirements documentation, requirements traceability matrix.

Define Scope

• Develops 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, and facilitated workshops.
• Outputs: Project scope statement, project documents updates.

Create WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)

• Subdivides project deliverables into smaller, manageable components.
• Inputs: Scope management plan, project scope statement, requirements documentation, enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Decomposition and expert judgment.
• Outputs: Scope baseline, project documents updates.

Validate Scope

• Formalizes acceptance of completed project deliverables.
• Inputs: Project management plan, requirements documentation, requirements traceability matrix, verified deliverables, work performance data.
• Tools & Techniques: Inspection and group decision-making techniques.
• Outputs: Accepted deliverables, change requests, work performance information, project documents updates.

Control Scope

• Monitors project and product scope status, managing changes to the scope baseline.
• 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 management plan updates, project documents updates, organizational process assets updates.

Scope Definitions

• 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 which sometimes includes product scope.

• Scope Baseline: Approved version of the project scope statement, WBS, and WBS dictionary.

  • It can only be changed through formal change control procedures.
  • It serves as a basis for comparison during Validate Scope and Control Scope processes.

• Project Time Management includes the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project.

Plan Schedule Management

• Establishes policies, procedures, and documentation for planning, developing, managing, executing, and controlling the project schedule.
• Inputs: Project charter, project management plan, enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Expert judgment, data analysis, and meetings.
• Outputs: Schedule management plan.

Define Activities

• Identifies and documents specific actions to produce project deliverables.
• Inputs: Project Management Plan, Enterprise Environmental Factors, Organizational Process Assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Expert Judgment, Decomposition, Rolling Wave Planning, Meetings.
• Outputs: Activity List, Activity Attributes, Milestone List, Change Requests, Project Management Plan Updates.

Sequence Activities

• Identifies and documents relationships among project activities.
• Inputs: Project Management Plan, Project Documents, Enterprise Environmental Factors, Organizational Process Assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Precedence Diagramming Method, Dependency Determination & Integration, Leads & Lags, Project Management Information System.
• Outputs: Project Schedule Network Diagrams, Project Documents Updates.

Estimate Activity Durations

• Estimates the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources.
• Inputs: Project Management Plan, Project Documents, Enterprise Environmental Factors, Organizational Process Assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Expert Judgment, Analogous Estimating, Parametric Estimating, Three-point Estimating, Bottom-up Estimating, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Meetings.
• Outputs: Duration Estimates, Basis of Estimates, Project Documents Updates.

Develop Schedule

• Analyzes activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule constraints to create the project schedule model.
• Inputs: Project Management Plan, Project Documents, Agreements, Enterprise Environmental Factors, Organizational Process Assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Schedule Network Analysis, Critical Path Method, Resource Optimization, Data Analysis, Leads & Lags, Schedule Compression, Project Management Information System, Agile Release Planning.
• Outputs: Schedule Baseline, Project Schedule, Schedule Data, Project Calendars, Change Requests, Project Management Plan Updates, Project Documents Updates.

Control Schedule

• Monitors the status of project activities to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline.
• Inputs: Project Management Plan, Project Documents, Work Performance Data, Organizational Process Assets.
• Tools & Techniques: Critical Path Method, Project Management Information System, Resource Optimization, Leads & Lags, Schedule Compression.
• Outputs: Work Performance Information, Schedule Forecasts, Change Requests, Project Management Plan Updates, Project Documents Updates.