Project Scope Management Terms

Question 1

8/80 Rule

Answer 1

A planning heuristic for creating the WBS. This rule states that the work package in a WBS must take no more than 80 hours of labor to create and no fewer than 8 hours of labor to create.

Question 2

Alternatives generation

Answer 2

A scope definition process of finding alternative solutions for the project customer while considering the customer’s satisfaction, the cost of the solution, and how the customer may use the product in operations.

Question 3

Autocratic

Answer 3

A decision method where only one individual makes the decision for the group.

Question 4

Change control system (CCS)

Answer 4

Documented in the scope management plan, this system defines how changes to the project scope are managed and controlled.

Question 5

Configuration management plan

Answer 5

This subsidiary plan defines how changes to the features and functions of the project deliverables will be monitored and controlled within the project.

Question 6

Context diagram

Answer 6

These diagrams show the relationship between elements of an environment

Question 7

Functional analysis

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This is the study of the functions within a system, project, or, what’s more likely in the project scope statement, the product the project will be creating. Functional analysis studies the goals of the product, how the product will be used, and the expectations the customer has of the product once it leaves the project and moves into operations.

Question 8

Nominal group technique

Answer 8

As with brainstorming, participants are encouraged to generate as many ideas as possible, but the suggested ideas are ranked by a voting process.

Question 9

Product scope

Answer 9

Defines the product or service that will come about as a result of completing the project. It defines the features and functions that characterize the product

Question 10

Project scope

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This defines all of the work, and only the required work, to complete the project objectives.

Question 11

Project scope management plan

Answer 11

This project management subsidiary plan controls how the scope will be defined, how the project scope statement will be created, how the WBS will be created, how scope validation will proceed, and how the project scope will be controlled throughout the project.

Question 12

Requirements documentation

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This documentation of what the stakeholders expected in the project defines all of the requirements that must be present for the work to be accepted by the stakeholders.

Question 13

Requirements traceability matrix (RTM)

Answer 13

This is a table that maps the requirements throughout the project all the way to their completion

Question 14

Scope creep

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Undocumented, unapproved changes to the project scope.

Question 15

Scope validation

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The formal inspection of the project deliverables, which leads to project acceptance.

Question 16

Systems analysis

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A scope definition approach that studies and analyzes a system, its components, and the relationship of the components within the system

Question 17

Value engineering

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This approach to project scope statement creation attempts to find the correct level of quality in relation to a reasonable budget for the project deliverable while still achieving an acceptable level of performance of the product.

Question 18

scope

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the sum of the products, services, and results to be provided as a project