Exam 5: Project Scope Management

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List and briefly describe the six main processes involved in project scope management.

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1. Planning scope management involves determining how the project's scope and requirements will be managed. The project team works with appropriate stakeholders to create a scope management plan and requirements management plan.
2. Collecting requirements involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them. The project team creates stakeholder requirements documentation, a requirements management plan, and a requirements traceability matrix as outputs of the requirements collection process.
3. Defining scope involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved. The main outputs of scope definition are the project scope statement and updates to project documents.
4.Creating the WBS involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. The main outputs include a work breakdown structure, a WBS dictionary, a scope baseline, and updates to project documents.
5. Verifying scope involves formalizing acceptance of the project deliverables. Key project stakeholders, such as the customer and sponsor for the project, inspect and then formally accept the deliverables during this process. If the deliverables are not acceptable, the customer or sponsor usually requests changes. The main outputs of this process, therefore, are accepted deliverables, change requests, work performance information, and updates to project documents.
6. Controlling scope involves controlling changes to project scope throughout the life of the project-a challenge on many information technology projects. Scope changes often influence the team's ability to meet project time and cost goals, so project managers must carefully weigh the costs and benefits of scope changes. The main outputs of this process are work performance information, change requests, and updates to the project management plan, project documents, and organizational process assets.

A(n) _____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project.

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_____ is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger.

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Scope creep

The _____ technique for creating a WBS uses branches radiating from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas instead of writing down tasks in a list or immediately trying to create a structure for tasks.

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A(n) _____ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines its total scope.

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What is a work breakdown structure? What are the inputs and tools used for creating one?

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_____ uses highly organized and intensive workshops to bring together project stakeholders-the sponsor, users, business analysts, programmers, and so on-to jointly define and design information systems.

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_____ involves defining and documenting the features and functions of the products produced during the project as well as the processes used for creating them.

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_____ involves reviewing the project charter, requirements documents, and organizational process assets to create a scope statement, adding more information as requirements are developed and change requests are approved.

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In the _____approach for constructing a WBS, you use a similar project's WBS as a starting point.

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The tasks in a WBS must be developed as a sequential list of steps.

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The main outputs of scope definition are the _____ and project document updates.

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Many information technology projects also require detailed functional and design specifications for developing software, which also should be referenced in the detailed scope statement.

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The main outputs of _____are the project scope statement and updates to project documents.

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In the _____ approach to creating a WBS, team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible.

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_____ refer to "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."

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A work package is a task at the _____ level of the WBS.

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The scope of a project is clear and specific from the start.

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_____ refers to all the work involved in creating the products of the project and the processes used to create them.

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The WBS is organized solely around project phases.

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