Sunday, October 09, 2016

Education Edge PMP PMBOK Week 3 Office Read - Project Scope Management


PMBOK Chapter 5 – Scope Knowledge Area

6 Processes

1.     Plan Scope Management (Planning)

2.     Collect Requirements (Planning)

3.     Define Scope (Planning)

4.     Create WBS (Planning)

5.     Control Scope (Monitoring and Controlling)

6.     Validate Scope (Monitoring and Controlling)

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Collect Requirements

The process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs in the form of condition and capabilities to meet project objectives

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Define Scope

The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product

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Create WBS

The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components

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Validate Scope

The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables

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Control Scope

The process of monitoring the status of the project and the product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline

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Product Scope

The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result

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Project Scope

The work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions

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Collect Requirements: Tools and Techniques

Interviews (most widely used), Focus Groups, Facilitated Workshops, Document Analysis, Prototyping, Observation, Requirement Workshops (most effective), Business Context Diagram, Surveys and Questionnaire

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Stakeholder Register

Used to identify stakeholders that can provide information on detailed project requirements and management activities.

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VOC

Voice Of the Customer

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Nominal Group Technique

Enhances brainstorming with a voting process used to run ideas in order of usefulness

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The Delphi Technique

A selected group of experts answers questionnaires and provide feedback

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Idea/Mind Mapping

Ideas created through individual brainstorming are consolidated into a single map to reflect commonality and differences in understanding and generate new ideas

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Affinity Diagram

Allows a large number od ideas to be sorted into groups for review and analysis

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Plurality

The largest block in a group decides even if a majority is not achieved

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Requirements Management Plan

Documents how requirements will be analyzed, documented and managed throughout the project

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Requirement Traceability Matrix

A table that links requirements to their origin and trace them throughout the project life cycle

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Requirements Documentation

Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project

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Decomposition

Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components

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Work Package Level

The point at which the cost and activity durations for the work can be reliably estimated and managed

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The 100% Rule

WBS represents all product and project work. Everything leads from the bottom-up and no extra work is left out

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WBS Dictionary

A document that provides more detailed descriptions of the components of the WBS

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Scope Baseline

Part of the Project Management Plan, includes: Project Scope Statement, WBS and WBS Dictionary

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Validated Deliverables

Deliverables that have been completed and checked for correctness by the Perform Quality Control process

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Accepted Deliverables

Deliverables that are formally signed off and approved by the customer or sponsor

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Configuration Management Plan

Defines items that require formal change control and the process for controlling change to such items

 

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