By Ray Myers, Jr., PMP The PMBOK says that Scope Management is primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project.  But what does that really mean? The purpose of Scope Management is to: Define and document the product or service to be produced by the project Ensure...
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By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP The 4th edition of the PMBOK eliminated the step to Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement from the project Initiation phase.  Previous editions of the PMBOK recommended that the preliminary scope statement be developed during Initiation, but since the project charter contains many of the preliminary goals for the project,...
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By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP Scope management is a key project management activity because it assures stakeholders that the project will achieve the deliverables as defined in the approved scope statement and statement of work. For this discussion, scope can refer to either: 1) The features and functions that are to be included in...
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By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP A good scope statement does more than describe what a project will do or produce.  The best scope statements will also describe what is not to be part of the project.  In other words, the scope statement builds a fence around the project that contains the project deliverables and...
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