Project Scope Management
About the Lecture
The lecture Project Scope Management by Grey Campus is from the course Project Management Professional. It contains the following chapters:
- Section Overview and Objectives
- Planning Process Group
- Collect Requirements
- Define Scope
- Validate Scope
- Control Scope
Included Quiz Questions
What refer(s) to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them?
- Scope
- Deliverables
- Milestones
- Product Development
Which tool or technique for collecting requirements is often the most expensive and time consuming?
- Interviews
- Focus Groups
- Surveys
- Observation
A___ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines its total scope.
- WBS
- Scope Statement
- WBS Dictionary
- Work package
What approach to developing a WBS involves writing down or drawing ideas in a nonlinear format?
- Mind mapping
- top-down
- bottom-up
- Analogy
Assume that you have a project with major categories called planning, analysis, design, and testing. What level of the WBS would these items fall under?
- 2
- 0
- 1
- 3
Which of the following is not a best practice that can help in avoiding scope problems on IT projects?
- Don't involve too many users in scope management
- Keep the scope realistic
- Use off the shelf hardware and software whenever possible
- Follow good project management processes
Why would a large company terminate a large project after spending $170 million USD on it?
- The scope could be too much to handle
- The company found better technology
- The company decide to outsource the work
- The government requirement that prompted the project was repealed
Scope ___ is often achieved by a customer inspection and then sign-off on key deliverables.
- validation
- acceptance
- completion
- close-out
Which of the following is not a suggestion for improving user input?
- Only have meetings as needed, not on a regular basis
- Develop a good project selection process for IT projects
- Have users on the project team
- Co-locate users with developers
Project management software helps you develop a ___, which serves as a basis for creating Gantt charts, assigning resources, and allocating costs.
- WBS
- project plan
- schedule
- deliverable
Going down a level in a WBS ______.
- Results in a greater degree of accuracy
- Results in a lesser degree of accuracy
- Is only needed on projects over $1,000,000
- Allows the project manager to better develop the project charter
Who benefits from a WBS?
- The project manager and the customer
- The project manager
- The customer
- Neither project manager nor customer
A WBS dictionary does not ______.
- Define the technical terms used in the project
- Designate the staff assigned
- Include the budget for the item
- Identify the schedule dates for the item
At what stage of scope management do you develop a WBS?
- Definition
- Initiation
- Verification
- It is part of the project charter
What is "gold plating"?
- Including enhancements that are not necessary to accomplish the objective of the project
- "Polishing" the project to get it down to the bare minimum
- Part of the cope verification process
- Needed to keep the project on track
If you are approached by the customer and asked to make a change in the scope, you should _____.
- Inform the customer of the scope change procedure
- Defer the decision to your boss
- Make sure the customer understands the impact and proceed if they do
- Assign a specialist to handle the change
Scope verification _______.
- Assures the "acceptance" of the result
- Should only be done at the final phase of the project
- Assures the "correctness" of the result
- Is not really a phase of scope management
The project charter ______.
- Authorizes the project manager to use resources
- Is developed by the project team
- Include a detailed WBS
- Is required before scope initiation can begin
Which of the following is an example of "constrained optimization"?
- Linear programming
- Cost/benefit analysis
- Decision tree analysis
- RPN analysis
The scope management plan is developer ______.
- During scope planning
- During scope change control
- After the WBS is complete
- During scope initiation
Which forms the basis of the project plan?
- The project scope
- The product scope
- The risk analysis
- Scope verification
What is the objective of scope verification?
- The customer recognizes the quality of work
- The project team assesses the quality of work
- The customer accepts the phase or project
- The auditors sign off on the project
Why is a standard format for a WBS desirable?
- It allows effective communication concerning the WBS level you are discussing
- All projects can be decomposed to the same level of detail
- It can be used to develop a project charter
- It avoids wasted time developing the structure of the exercise
Which of the following would be found in a project charter?
- The business case for the project
- Detailed estimates
- Staffing plans
- Procurement plans
A senior manager external to the project should ______.
- Develop the project charter
- Develop the project budget
- Develop the project staffing plan
- Develop the project schedule
Author of lecture Project Scope Management
Grey Campus
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Excerpts from the accompanying material
... Scope Management section: What is scope and how can you control it within the project. The 6 processes of scope management. The components of ...
... 5.3 Define Scope, 5.4 Create WBS, 5.5 Verify Scope, 5.6 Control Scope "Project scope is measured against the ...
... will be defined, validated, and controlled. Key benefit - provides guidance and direction on how scope will ...
... Process that establishes how the WBS will be maintained and approved, Process that specifies how formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables will be obtained ...
... effective relationship for project and documents this approach in the requirements management plan. Components include: How requirement activities will be planned, ...
... 5. Group decision making techniques. 6. Questionnaires & surveys. 7. Observations. 8. Prototypes. 9. Benchmarking. 10. Context Diagrams. 11. Document Analysis. 1. Requirements documentation. 2. Requirements traceability matrix ...
... Inputs: Scope Management Plan ...
... and dictatorship - Questionnaires and Surveys - Observations - job shadowing or participant observation - Prototypes - models, mock-ups - Benchmarking - comparing actual and planned practices to those of comparable organizations: identify best practice, ...
... meet the business need for the project. Business need or market opportunity. Goals and objectives (for traceability). ...
... opportunity, goal, objective. Requirements to project objectives, scope/WBS deliverables. Requirements to test strategy and the test ...
... the project and product. Key benefit: describes the product, service, or result boundaries by defining which of the requirements collected will ...
... have a product as a deliverable. Alternatives Identification. Identifying alternative approaches to complete the ...
... includes: Detailed description of the project’s deliverables and the work required to create ...
... 1. Project scope statement. 2. Requirements documentation ...
... for dividing and subdividing project scope and deliverables into smaller parts. ...
... Code of account identifiers. Description of work. Assumptions an constraints. Responsible person(s) or organization. List of schedule milestones ...
... objectives to the acceptance process. Increases chance of final product, service, or result acceptance by validating each deliverable ...
... acceptance from customer or sponsor. Accepted deliverables meet the acceptance criteria. Formally signed off and approved by customer or sponsor ...
... managing changes to the scope baseline. Key benefit: allows scope baseline to be maintained throughout the project. ...
... scope: Scope baseline. Scope management plan. Change management plan ...
... is scope and how can you control it within the project. The 6 processes of scope management. The components of the Scope ...
