Scope Planning

Defining and managing the project scope influences the project’s overall success. Each project requires a careful balance of tools, data sources, methodologies, processes and procedures, and other factors to ensure that the effort expended on scoping activities is commensurate with the project’s size, complexity, and importance. For example, a critical project could merit formal, thorough, and time- intensive scoping activities, while a routine project could require substantially less documentation and scrutiny. The project management team documents these scope management decisions in the project scope management plan. The project scope management plan is a planning tool describing how the team will define the project scope, develop the detailed project scope statement, define and develop the work breakdown structure, verify the project scope, and control the project scope. The development of the project scope management plan and the detailing of the project scope begin with the analysis of information contained in the project charter (Section 4.1), the preliminary project scope statement (Section 4.2), the latest approved version of the project management plan (Section 4.3), historical information contained in the organizational process assets (Section 4.1.1.4), and any relevant enterprise environmental factors (Section 4.1.1.3).