of cost, duration, and resource estimates and defining performance measurement and control, facilitates clear responsibility assignments.
Poor scope definition results in
1. Higher final project costs
2. Changes that disrupt the project rhythm
3. Rework
4. Increase in project time
5. Lower productivity
6. Lower morale of workforce
Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables. The Work breakdown Structure is finalized by establishing control accounts for the work packages and a unique identifier from a code of accounts. These identifiers provide a structure for hierarchical summation of costs, schedule, and resource information. Control accounts are placed at selected management points in the WBS.
Control Scope
Control Scope is a process to monitor the status of the project and product scope and manage changes to the scope baseline. Project management plan contains the following information that is used to control scope:
1. Scope baseline
2. Scope management plan
3. Change management plan
4. Configuration management plan
5. Requirements management plan
In variance analysis, project performance measurements are used to assess the magnitude of variation from the original scope baseline. An effective scope management plan doesn’t end when the project work starts.
Throughout the project, you must go back to the stakeholders each time the project team completes a project deliverable. The stakeholders verify that project deliverables satisfy the scope requirement in completeness and quality. For instance, if one of the requirements of the centralized account opening process is to create an effective user interface for remote offices, the stakeholders will perform quality and does the user testing to make sure that this requirement has been met.
Any changes to the base lined scope requirements affect the project. If the change is an additional requirement or modification to an existing requirement, the project may take longer or sometimes costs more to complete the deliverable. If the change is the removal of a project requirement, the impact may be positive in terms of time and money as there are chances to be able to complete the project ahead of schedule or under budget. For the scope management plan to be successful and effective, both negative and positive changes must be controlled. An change requests or feature requests must be approved by the authorized sta