Introduction: The Importance of Scope Management
LO 5.1 Understand the importance of scope management for project success.
The project scope is everything about a project—work content as well as expected outcomes. Project scope consists of naming all activities to be performed, the resources consumed, and the end products that result, including quality standards.2 Scope includes a project’s goals, constraints, and limitations. Scope management is the function of controlling a project in terms of its goals and objectives through the processes of conceptual development, full definition, execution, and termination. It provides the foundation upon which all project work is based and is therefore the culmination of predevelopment planning. The ...
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