Completion
50. _____ includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a
project.
ANSWER: Project scope management
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Difficulty: Easy
REFERENCES: p.202
QUESTION TYPE: Completion
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: INFO.SCHW.14.31 - LO: 5-1
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic
TOPICS: What Is Project Scope Management?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge
DATE CREATED: 4/27/2018 3:50 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 6/6/2018 6:11 PM
51. _____ refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to
create them.
ANSWER: Scope
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Difficulty: Easy
REFERENCES: p.202
QUESTION TYPE: Completion
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: INFO.SCHW.14.31 - LO: 5-1
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic
TOPICS: What Is Project Scope Management?
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Knowledge
DATE CREATED: 4/27/2018 3:50 PM
DATE MODIFIED: 6/6/2018 6:11 PM
52. The main outputs of _____are the project scope statement and updates to project documents.
ANSWER: scope definition
POINTS: 1
DIFFICULTY: Difficulty: Easy
REFERENCES: p.210
QUESTION TYPE: Completion
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: INFO.SCHW.14.31 - LO: 5-1
NATIONAL STANDARDS: United States - BUSPROG: Analytic
TOPICS: What Is Project Scope Management?
COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT (CS 301)
LECTURE NOTES
UNIT 5: PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
One of the most important and most difficult aspects of project management is defining the scope
of a project. Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the
processes used to create them. Recall that the term deliverable describes a product created as part
of a project. Deliverables can be product related, such as a piece of hardware or software, or
process-related, such as a planning document or meeting minutes. Project stakeholders must
agree what the products of the project are and, to some extent, how they should be produced to
define all of the deliverables.
Project scope management includes the processes involved in defining and controlling what
work is or is not included in a project. It ensures that the project team and stakeholders have the
same understanding of what products the project will produce and what processes the project
team will use to produce them. Six main processes are involved in project scope management:
1.Planning scope management involves determining how the project’s scope and requirements
will be managed. The project team works with appropriate stakeholders to create a scope
management plan and requirements management plan.
2.Collecting requirements involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the
products for the project as well as the processes used for creating them. The project team
creates requirements documentation and a requirements traceability matrix as outputs of the
requirements collection process.
3.Defining scope involves reviewing the scope management plan, project charter, requirements
documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more
information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved. The main
outputs of scope definition are the project scope statement and updates to project documents.
4.Creating the WBS involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more
manageable components. The main outputs include a scope baseline (which includes a work
breakdown structure and a WBS dictionary) and updates to project documents.
5.Validating scope involves formalizing acceptance of the project deliverables. Key project
stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally
accept the deliverables during this process. If the deliverables are not acceptable, the
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