CPM Scope and Processes

Project Scope Management

The processes used to guarantee that a project contains only the work necessary to effectively carry out the project.

Product Scope

The features or characteristics of a product regardless of its design function or parts.

Project Scope

The various steps and work taken to deliver a product including assembly lines budgets staff training supply chains and personnel allocations.

Plan Scope Management

The process of recording how the project and product scope will be defined validated and controlled.

Scope Management Plan

A plan that describes how project and product scope will be defined developed monitored controlled and validated.

Requirements Management Plan

A plan that describes how project and product requirements will be analyzed documented and managed.

Collect Requirements

The process of determining documenting and managing stakeholder requirements to meet project goals.

Stakeholder Requirements

The requirements identified from stakeholders that must be managed to meet project goals.

Requirements Documentation

Documentation that defines how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.

Requirements Traceability Matrix

A grid-like instrument that connects product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.

Define Scope

The process of developing a detailed description of the project and product that serves as a guide throughout the project.

Project Scope Statement

A document containing the description of project scope major deliverables assumptions constraints and explicit scope exclusions.

Scope Exclusions

Specific work or elements that are explicitly excluded from the project and product scope.

Project Document Updates

Updates made to project documents as a result of implementing project scope management processes.

Assumption Log

A project document that may be updated during the Define Scope process and other scope processes.

Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

The process of subdividing project deliverables and work into smaller and more manageable parts.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

A hierarchical structure of project activities that focuses on the work required to create project products.

Scope Baseline

The accepted version of the scope statement WBS and associated WBS dictionary used as a basis for comparison.

WBS Dictionary

The document associated with the WBS that forms part of the scope baseline.

Formal Change Control Procedures

Procedures through which changes to the scope baseline are formally reviewed and controlled.

Work Breakdown Structure vs Product Breakdown Structure

The WBS focuses on work while the PBS focuses on the deliverables or products created by the project.

Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

A hierarchical structure of the deliverables that a project creates or provides.

WBS Question

How are products made?

PBS Question

What is this product made of?

WBS Representation

WBS represents verbs because it focuses on activities and work.

PBS Representation

PBS represents nouns because it focuses on products and deliverables.

Validate Scope

The process that formalizes acceptance of completed deliverables through review and approval by customers stakeholders managers or all three.

Accepted Deliverables

Deliverables that meet the acceptance criteria and are formally signed off and approved by the customer or sponsor.

Work Performance Information

Information about project progress including which deliverables have been accepted and which have not been accepted and the reasons why.

Change Request

A request made when completed deliverables are not appropriately accepted and may require defect repair or other changes.

Control Scope

The process of monitoring project status scope and changes to the scope baseline to ensure execution according to the project scope management plan.

Scope Baseline Maintenance

The continued maintenance of the approved scope baseline throughout the project.

Scope Performance Comparison

The comparison of project and product scope performance against the scope baseline.

Project Management Plan Updates

Updates to the project management plan made through the organization's change control process.

Requirements Traceability Matrix Update

An update to the matrix that maintains the relationship between requirements and deliverables throughout the project.

Lessons Learned Register

A project document that may be updated as a result of scope management processes.

Project Scope Management Processes

Plan Scope Management Collect Requirements Define Scope Create Work Breakdown Structure Validate Scope and Control Scope.

Project Scope Inclusions

The work and elements that are included within the defined project scope.

Project Scope Exclusions

The work and elements that are specifically excluded from the defined project scope.

Acceptance Criteria

Criteria used to determine whether a completed deliverable can be formally accepted.

Stakeholder Expectations

The expectations and desires of stakeholders that are identified and managed through requirements collection.

Scope Control

The monitoring and management of changes to the scope baseline throughout the project.

Project Integration Management (PIM)

The processes and activities used to identify define combine unify and coordinate various project phases processes and activities.

Integrated Project Management

The process of combining and unifying all aspects of a project.

Develop Project Charter

The process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager authority to apply organizational resources.

Project Charter

A document that formally authorizes the existence of a project and gives the project manager authority to use organizational resources for project activities.

Develop Project Management Plan

The process of defining preparing and coordinating related plans and combining them into a comprehensive project management plan.

Project Management Plan

A comprehensive plan that integrates the related project plans and guides project management.

Direct and Manage Project Work

The process of leading and performing the work defined in the project management plan and implementing approved changes to achieve the project goal.

Monitor and Control Project Work

The process of tracking reviewing and reporting project progress against the performance objectives defined in the project management plan.

Perform Integrated Change Control

The process of reviewing and approving change requests and managing changes to project deliverables.

Close Project or Phase

The process of finalizing all activities and formally closing the project or phase after completion.

Project Lifecycle

The sequence of phases through which a project progresses from initiation through planning execution and closing.

Initiation Phase

The phase in which a project is started and formally authorized.

Planning Phase

The phase in which project objectives resources activities and related plans are developed.

Execution Phase

The phase in which planned project activities are performed.

Closing Phase

The phase in which project activities are finalized and the project is formally closed.

Feasibility Phase

The project phase associated with determining whether the project is practical and feasible.

Project Objectives

The goals that the project is intended to achieve.

Project Resources

The organizational resources applied to project activities.

Project Activities

The work performed to achieve project objectives.