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Scope Planning
By Raymond Keckler | November 28, 2007
The project scope knowledge area is responsible in describing and controlling what is and what is not suppose to be work in the project. The scope is the intended purpose of the project and it deliverables. Scope planning documents the scope management plan. It lays out the project scope, how the WBS will be developed, how changes to the scope will be handled, and how the scope will be verified.
Inputs to the scope planning are the outputs from the initiating process group. We must have the project charter, preliminary project scope statement and the project management plan. Scope planning has two tools and techniques, expert judgment and templates, forms and standards. The output of the scope planning is the project scope management plan. The scope management plan should contain the process you will use to prepare the project scope statement, a process for creating WBS, definition of how deliverables will be verified, the process for accepting deliverables, and a process for controlling change.
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