Chapter 5 Project Scope Management
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Chapter 5 Project Scope Management
Announcements Exercise 1 due Wednesday (upload to Entropy as an Excel file) Project Integration Assignment due Friday (Upload as a zip/compressed file) Career Day tomorrow GE Leadership Program Sessions (4:50 & 5:25) 2 Copyright 2014
Project Integration Management Processes Process Group Integration Management Process Initiating Developing the project charter Project Charter Planning Developing the project management plan Project Management Plan Executing Directing and managing project work Deliverables, work performance info, change requests Monitoring and Controlling (1) Monitor/Control Project Work (2) Perform Integrated Change Control (1) Change Requests (2) Status updates Close Project/Phase Product Transition Closing Major Output 3 Copyright 2014
What is Project Scope Management? Scope refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them 4 Copyright 2014
Project Scope Management Processes Process Group Integration Management Process P1: Plan Scope Management Scope Mgmt Plan Requirement Mgmt Plan P2: Collect Requirements Req. Documentation Req. Traceability Matrix P3: Define Scope Project Scope Stmt Project Docs Update P4: Create WBS Scope Baseline Project Docs Update MC1: Validate Scope Accept Deliverables Change Requests Work Performance Info MC2: Control Scope Change Requests Project Mgmt Plan Updates Org, Process Asset Updates5 Planning Monitoring and Controlling Major Output Copyright 2014
Project Scope Management Processes Planning scope Collecting requirements Defining scope Creating the WBS Validating scope Controlling scope 6 Copyright 2014
P1: Planning Scope Management The project team uses expert judgment and meetings to develop two important outputs The scope management plan is a subsidiary part of the project management plan 7 Copyright 2014
P1: Scope Management Plan Contents How to prepare a detailed project scope statement How to create a WBS How to maintain and approve the WBS How to obtain formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables How to control requests for changes to the project scope Example A Example B 8 Copyright 2014
P1: Requirements Management Plan “conditions or capabilities that must be met by the project or present in the product, service, or result to satisfy an agreement or other formally imposed specification*” 9 *The PMBOK Guide, Fifth Edition Copyright 2014
P2: Collecting Requirements For some IT projects, it is helpful to divide requirements development into categories called elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation http://www.certified-re.de/en/home.html Copyright 2014 10
Relative Cost to Correct a Software Requirement Defect 11 Copyright 2014
P2: Methods for Collecting Requirements Interviewing Prototyping Benchmarking 12 Copyright 2014
Statistics on Requirements for Software Projects * 88% of the software projects involved enhancing existing products instead of creating new ones 86% said that customer satisfaction was the most important metric for measuring the success of development projects 83% of software development teams still use MS Office applications (e.g. Word and Excel) as their main tools to communicate requirements *John Simpson, “2011: The State of Requirements Management” (2011). Copyright 2014 13
PM Network: The Blame Game Surrender the pipe dream Always assume initial reqs. are wrong Accept that all requirements change Simplify your change management approach 14 Copyright 2014
P2:Requirements Traceability Matrix A requirements traceability matrix (RTM) is a table that lists requirements, various attributes of each requirement, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all requirements are addressed Another Example Copyright 2014 15
P3: Defining Scope Project scope statements should include at least: a product scope description product user acceptance criteria detailed information on all project deliverables. 16 Copyright 2014
Sample Project Charter (partial) 17 Copyright 2014
Refining Project Scope 18 Copyright 2014
Example Scope Statements Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 19 Copyright 2014
Project Scope Statement - Exercise POQ Organization – Online Shoe Store Review the exercise and answer the questions at the bottom of the sheet We will discuss each of these questions and then create the scope statement 20 Copyright 2014
