Midterm: project scope Flashcards
Scope
Refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the process used to create them
Deliverable
A product produced as part of a project such as hardware or software planning documents or meeting minutes
Project scope management
The process involved in defining and controlling what is or is not included in the project
Planning scope management
The project team uses expert judgment and meetings to develop too important outputs The scope management plan and the requirements management plan
Collecting requirements
Divide requirements into four categories elicitation analysis specification and validation; it is important to use an iterative approach to defining requirements since they often are unclear early in a project
Methods to collect requirements
Interviewing, focus groups, questionnaires, observation, prototype
Requirements traceability matrix
A table that lisrs requirements, various attributes of each requirement, and the status of the requirements to ensure that all requirements are dressed
Project scope statement
Should include at least a product scoop description, product user acceptance criteria, and detailed information on our project deliverables. It is also helpful To document other scope related information, such as the project boundaries, constraints, and Assumptions.
WBS
A deliverable orientating grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project. It provides the basis for planning and managing projects schedules, cost, resources, changes
Decomposition
Subdividing project deliverables into smaller pieces
Work package
A task at the lowest level of the work breakdown structure
Scope baseline
Includes the proof project scope statement and it’s associated work break down structure
Analogy approach
Review work breakdown structure of similar projects and Taylor to your project
Top down approach
Start with the largest items of the project and break them down
Bottom up approach
Start with the specific tasks and roll them up
Mind mapping
A technique that uses branches radiating out from the core idea to structure thoughts and
Scope validation
Involve formal acceptance of the completed project deliverables. Acceptance is achieved by customer inspection and they sign off on key
Controlling scope
Involves controlling changes to the project scope. The goals are to influence the factors that cause scope changes, it sure changes are processed accordingly to procedures developed as part of integrated change control, manage changes when they occur
Improving user input
Encourage sponsors to be from the user organization, have members of the project team on important rolls, have regular meetings with the find agendas, deliver something on a regular basis, don’t promise to deliver it when you
Project schedule
Main reason for complex and projects, managers site delivering projects on time as one of the biggest challenges
Controlling the schedule
goals:
KNo the status of the schedule, determine the schedule changes, influence factors that cause schedule changes, manager changes when they occur
