Understand Project Scope Management Flashcards
What are the steps of requirements gathering?
Charlie Alpha - Juliet Bravo
Capture - elicitation (surveys, focus groups) - what are they currently doing and what could be improved
Analyse - solve the problem (options) - what solutions are available?
Justify - MoScoW
Baseline - agreement
What is MoSCoW?
Must have - it wouldnt be usable if didnt have it
Should haves - important but could find workaround
Could have - nice to have, whizz
Won’t have - cant do (legal) or really expensive
Used to prioritise and justify to key stakeholders, options and recommendations paper.
What is the baseline agreement? When requirements gathering
It is where the board agrees
What is the difference of requirements gathering in linear and iterative projects?
In linear - everything is agreed at the start exactly what is in scope and what isn’t.
Iterative - add things as you go from the backlog. Start and stop whenever.
What is scope and scope management?
The totality of the outputs, outcomes and benefits and the work required to produce them.
Scope management is controlling these.
What is a product breakdown structure?
You demonstrate what the scope is.
Describe what the project will achieve in a diagram.
How do you use the product breakdown structure to communicate?
Physically show members of the project team and stakeholders, request feedback. Better tool than just email.
What is a work breakdown structure?
It provides the clarity underneath the product breakdown structure. How are you going to get to the work?
Vigilant - project
Training - line of the product breakdown structure
How you will train - work breakdown structure
What is a RACI chart?
Responsible (doers)
Accountable (owner)
Consulted (two way flow of info)
Informed (one way flow)
Outlines who is responsible for what. Listed out into a RAM.
This is a tactical document.
What is configuration management?
Admin activities concerned with creation, maintainance, controlled change and quality control of the scope of work.
What are the five steps in configuration management?
Perhaps i can see vampires
Planning
Identification
Control
Status accounting
Verification
What is change control?
The process which all requests to change the baseline scope of a project
Why do people need to change things?
PESTLE
Funding has changed - increased or reduced
Resources get taken or increased
Technological
Change of sponsor
Strategic intent changed
What are the phases of the change control process?
Request - raise change and log
Initial and detailed evaluation - review change and options
Recommendation
Update plans
Implement
What happens if there isn’t any change control?
Loss of control
Team morale issues
Disappointment from sponsor
Alarm from user
Litigation
