Course Description

This seminar focuses on the identification, elaboration, planning and management of project scope, including selected processes from the Project Integration Management and Project Scope Management PMBOK® Guide Knowledge Areas.  The class addresses requirements identification and analysis, scope identification and planning, the scope baseline, scope management and change control, integration of scope, schedule and cost, scope verification and sign-off by the customer.  During the course, “best practices” will be introduced, and put into context through various exercises and scenarios and case studies.

Learning Objectives:

Students will learn how to use project scope management techniques to proactively plan, assess, monitor, control, document, and close out their project scope management activities on a project successfully.

• Discuss the processes of Project Scope Management and a project manager's role in this activity.

• Discuss why projects are unsuccessful due to inadequate scope management, and how project teams can address this shortcoming.

• List and discuss the requirements elicitation and prioritization process used to determine a project’s scope.

• Examine a Scope Management Plan and describe its use in project scope management.

• Develop the components of the Project Scope Statement and using this document to create the project’s scope boundaries.

• Discuss techniques for developing a Work Breakdown Structure for a project.

• Discuss the process of verifying project scope and formally accepting the project’s deliverables.

• Identify techniques for proactively monitoring and dealing with requests for scope change throughout the project life cycle.

• Use Lessons Learned regarding project scope management to continuously improve the Scope Management Plan.