Defining the boundaries of a project, including deliverables, requirements, milestones, and objectives.
Project scope statement: A document that outlines the project's objectives, deliverables, requirements, boundaries, and assumptions.
Work breakdown structure (WBS): A hierarchical breakdown of the project's deliverables and tasks into more manageable and specific components.
Scope baseline: A project's approved and documented scope statement, WBS, and its associated project schedule, and budget.
Requirements gathering and analysis: The process of identifying, analyzing, and documenting all stakeholder needs, expectations, and constraints for a project.
Scope verification: The process of reviewing and gaining the approval of project deliverables and work completed, ensuring that they meet the requirements and quality standards.
Scope change control: The formal process of tracking, evaluating, and managing all change requests to the project scope baseline.
Scope Creep: The uncontrolled expansion or addition of project scope without approval.
Project charter: A document that formally authorizes a project, outlining its goals, objectives, and key stakeholders.
Cost-benefit analysis: A technique for comparing the benefits and costs of a project to determine its economic feasibility.
Risk management: The process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to potential project risks that could impact project scope.
Stakeholder management: The process of identifying, engaging, and managing stakeholders' expectations and interests throughout the project lifecycle.
Project planning: The process of defining and developing a comprehensive project plan that includes scope, schedule, budget, resourcing, and risk management.
Project execution: The process of implementing the project plan, monitoring progress, and controlling changes to scope, schedule, and budget.
Project monitoring and control: The ongoing process of measuring project performance against the baseline plan, identifying variances, and taking corrective actions.
Project closure: The process of formally ending the project, including finalizing the scope, deliverables, and documenting lessons learned.
Scope Planning: Defines the project scope, outlines project goals & objectives, identifies constraints, and captures stakeholder's expectations.
Scope Definition: Defines the final deliverables, boundaries, and objectives of the project. This involves gathering requirements, developing a scope statement, and preparing a work breakdown structure.
Scope Verification: Confirms that all project scope requirements have been met and delivered to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.
Scope Control: The process of keeping the project within the scope and schedule. This involves monitoring project performance, measuring the scope against the scope baseline, and controlling changes to the project scope.
Change Control: This involves assessing any proposed changes to the project scope and determining whether they are necessary or impact the project's success. Any changes must pass through a formal process before approved.
Scope Decomposition: Breaking down project scope to manageable sub-projects or sub-objectives, facilitating better project coordination and risk management.
Scope Documentation: A structured and standard approach to store, manage and access all project related scope documents.
Scope Reporting: Regular and timely communication of status of the project scope to all relevant stakeholders, project management team and the executive level.