Planning Project Scope


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Overview/Description
Project scope management is concerned with ensuring that projects include and account for all the work needed for the successful completion of a project. Successful project managers use project scope management throughout the project life cycle to identify and control all aspects involved in a project. This course will highlight the importance of project scope management to project performance. Through interactive learning strategies and real-life scenarios, the learner will explore these concepts and gain a better understanding of the inputs to, the tools and techniques for, and the outputs of the project scope management processes that deal with creating a Project Scope Management Plan and developing a Project Scope Statement. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide) - Third Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Inc., 2004. Copyright and all rights reserved. Material from this publication has been reproduced with the permission of PMI®.

Target Audience
Project managers who are seeking to further their project management skills to more advanced levels

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

The Importance of Project Scope Management

  • identify the advantages of understanding the processes related to Project Scope Management.
  • match each Project Scope Management process with its description.
  • match the Project Process Groups with the Project Scope Management processes that take place within them.

    • Planning the Scope of a Project

  • identify the reasons why it's important to develop a Project Scope Management Plan.
  • match the inputs to creating a Project Scope Management Plan with the descriptions of how each is used.
  • identify the tools and techniques used to create a Project Scope Management Plan.
  • identify the missing components of a Project Scope Management Plan in a given scenario.

    • Defining Project Scope

  • identify the benefits of developing a Project Scope Statement.
  • match the inputs to creating a Project Scope Statement with the descriptions of how they are used.
  • match the tools and techniques used to develop a Project Scope Statement to examples.
  • identify the three outputs from defining project scope.

    • Course Number:
    PROJ0531