Planning Project Scope

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
1.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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