Chapter 5: Project Scope Management

• Understand the elements that make good project scope management important.
• Explain the scope planning process and describe the contents of a scope management plan.
• Describe the process for developing a project scope statement using the project charter and preliminary scope statement.
• Discuss the scope definition process and work involved in constructing a work breakdown structure using the analogy, top-down, bottom-up, and mind-mapping approaches.
• Explain the importance of scope verification and how it relates to scope definition and control.
• Understand the importance of scope control and approaches for preventing scope-related problems in information technology projects.
• Describe how software can assist in project scope management.