Scope Flashcards
Agile scope planning is useful when
Business requirements are not stable
What is the completion of the project scope measured against?
PM Plan
what are some considerations for Tailing Project Scope Management?
Knowledge and requirements management Validation and control Development Approach Stability of requirements Governance Agile
What does Project Scope Management ensure?
The project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully
What is Project Scope vs Product scope?
Project:
The work performed to deliver a product/service/result with the specified features and functions (dependent on Product Scope)
Product:
The features and functions of a product/service/result
What Process Groups are Scope Processes in?
Planning and Monitoring and controlling
What is the scope management plan?
Part of the PM Plan that defines, develops, monitors, controls, and validates the scope
What are the 3 big things Scope Processes deal with?
Defining and creating the scope mgmt plan
Defining and collecting requirements
Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
What is the PM’s role in the Project Scope Processes?
- Ensuring that requirements-related work is accounted for in the pm plan
- Ensuring requirements-related activities are performed on time and within budget and deliver value
Who helps determine the requirements for a project?
Stakeholders
What is the Requirements Traceability Matrix?
A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Helps:
- ensure each requirement adds value
- Link each requirement it to the business and project objectives
- Track requirements
What are transition and readiness requirements?
These describe temporary capabilities, such as data conversion and training requirements, needed to transition from the current as-is state to the desired future state.
What does collecting requirements heavily influence?
Work Breakdown Structure
What are the classifications of requirements?
Business Requirements
Stakeholder Requirements
Solution Requirements
Transition and readiness requirements
Project Requirements
Quality Requirements
What are Quality Requirements?
Criteria for validating the completion of a requirement
What is progressive elaboration?
Occurs when requirements become more clearly defined as the project advances.
What is contained in the project scope statement?
- The description of project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints
- Project and Product Scope
- Deliverables described in detail
- Common understanding of the project scope among stakeholders
What is a Work Breakdown Structure?
Hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. Each descending level of the WBS represents an increasingly detailed definition of the project work
What work does the WBS represent?
- Work specified in the project scope statement
What does work refer to in the WBS?
- Products or deliverables that are the result of an activity, not just the activity itself
What is a work package?
The lowest level component of the WBS, the individual “work” Legos to build the WBS with.
What is used to describe a scope baseline?
- Approved version of the scope statement
- Work breakdown structure
- Associated WBS dictionary
What is decomposition?
A technique that allows you to divide project deliverables into small, manageable parts (AKA Work packages)
- Allows you to estimate and manage project cost and duration
Assign a role to activities
How do you generally decompose a WBS?
- Identify your deliverables and related work
- Structure and organize the WBS
- Decompose upper WBS levels into detailed, lower-level components
- Develop and assign identification codes to WBS components
- Verify the correct amount of decomposition for the deliverables was used
What is rolling wave planning?
For subcomponents that won’t be able to decompose until a future time, this is the process of waiting until deliverables or subcomponents are agreed upon, and then developing the details of the WBS
What is the validate scope process?
The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables.
