What is Project Scope? Project Management in Under 5
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Project Scope is easy to define, but the hardest part of a project manager's job. So, what is Project Scope?
Here, Dr Mike Clayton, founder of OnlinePMCourses.com answers this question, in under 5 minutes.
For a full article:
- 'Project Scope: What You Need to Know' | onlinepmcourses.com/define-pr...
And, if you need to create a Scope Management Plan, check out:
- 'Scope Management Plan: Everything You Need to Know' | onlinepmcourses.com/scope-man...
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After hours of searching online, I finally found something that explains the project scope how I can understand it. Thank you!!
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Thank you so much, this video helped me understand what scope is so much.
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Your way of defining the topic is exceptionally nice. It helps me alot in my assignment.
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Thank u so much for your excellent explanation, I learnt more from your video! Great job sir”
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Thanks for simplifying the project scope
My pleasure!
You are an amazing teacher, it's just PM that is so boring. But it's a necessary evil and I have a huge respect for good PMs
I suspect if you start doing some real projects, Riboch, the ideas will start to feel more real and more engaging for you. I hope so. Anyway, thank you!
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thank you sir, for your excellent explanation, it helped me for my school homework, and as you said it "toughest challenge" :') . sorry if my English bad
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This video was so effective lets say im doing a construction project and need to outline my scope and context of the risk management process which i propose to put in place? which one will be the scope &the context?
I don't understand the question. The scope is what you are going to do or create. The context is the background situation in which you do it. Both create risks.
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You're welcome.
Just trying to make it easier for non-native English speakers to follow.
@@Onlinepmcourses .... doesn't matter how you do, what you do, it matters and really helpful for us. If you could do some videos on Cost analysis, critical path, forecasting, budgeting, scheduling, LDs, will be helpful. Thanks
@@verticom1 Thank you.
You'll find videos on some of these on my channel already, but I'll add forecasting and budgeting to my list. By LDs, do you mean Liquidated Damages? If so, I'm not sure I am qualified to give any detailed information.
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I am still confused between in scope and out of scope.
For Example, if I am arranging an conference in my university and there is a guest speaker who is going to come. What would be the in scope and out of scope for this. Can you please help me out with this !
Scope is difficult and deciding what to put in and out of scope will always be a pragmatic choice, based on your resources (and budget) and your assessment of (frankly) the politics. Ask yourself 'what will make your conference a success?' Clearly choosing a good speaker will be important, so that's in scope. Probably your speaker selecting a suitable topic and outline will be too, so I'd include in scope, working with the speaker on their topic and the content of their talk. But if the speaker chooses to their book at a stall, that won't make your conference a successor failure, so maybe put that out of scope, and do nothing more than liaise with the venue to offer a table. BUT... If it's a big name speaker, who demands a member of your team to staff the table, or they won't come, you may choose to bring that into scope.
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Think you to explain well project scope . 8 mouths ago i was looking for a caerer course and after more seaching with inspire desire i c ame to acrosse this course Project management acording to same information about project management alwayse, bulgetting and delivring a successfull job on time . I still ask people around me and go on google. But today i can said that trought this videos i am learning something different where i have never hear more more about ,and even make any differente bettewen project scope.
Thank you, Koffi - I hope you will enjoy more of my videos!
Hi Mike, I have been following your work for quite some time now and I find everything so helpful!Great work!
Something that is a bit confusing to me. If scope is to be agreed at the very beginning of the project before any of the planning takes place, then how can the timeframe/duration of the project(which is part of the scope) be calculated accurately? I know that the WBS helps to identify how long the project is going to take but if the scope is to be agreed before that then how is that decided?
It's a mistake to see planning as a purely linear process. We estimate scope at definition stage and them come back and add precision (with WBS as a good tool to use) in the planning stage. But there is oftedn a series of cycling back to ensure consistency. And, of course, scope can change: Hence Change Control.
See also:
- Project Planning Process - How to Build Effective Project Plans ua-cam.com/video/9G_LwG8ozpo/v-deo.html
- How to Create a Work Breakdown Structure: A WBS Masterclass ua-cam.com/video/PyR2VLP3xnA/v-deo.html
- What is Change Control? ua-cam.com/video/7JU_G7loIvw/v-deo.html
Hey @@Onlinepmcourses , thanks for coming back to me. In the cases where a contract of agreement needs to be signed with an external client and dates of completion are of great importance due to legal implications, is the approach the same?
@@yiotael Yes - you would draw the contract up after you have gone through as many rounds as you need. You will also want to inclde two neccessary protections (to both parties):
1. Contingency
2. A change control process which, in a contract, is usually known as a Variation Order or VO process.
@@Onlinepmcourses Thank you for the info.
sir can you elaborate or give an example of out scope and in scope . Thank you !
In scope: the things you will do in your project.
Out of scope: the things you won't do. Either because they are not important or valuable enough, or because somene else is doing them as part of another process, project, or initiative.
Let's say I am planning an office move...
In scope might be sending out directions for the new office to all staff.
Out of scope may be calculating journey times
Note that judging where the scope boundary is will always be a matter of judgment. Two different PMs in the same role may make different choices. It's about balancing different needs and wants against a budget and time allocation - and also about balancing the priorities of one set of stakeholders against those of other stakeholders.
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what is the relationship between cost, schedule, and performance in project management
Ahh - the Iron Triangle. Take a look at this video: ua-cam.com/video/JHSHOAfV-uw/v-deo.html
I wanna ask a question,
what is the difference between scope management plan and project management plan?
In other words which comes first scope management plan or project management plan?
Thank you for cooperation.
A Project Management Plan is a bigger thing - I covers every aspect of the project: scope, schedule, resources, budget, quality, H&S... Your Scope Management Plan is one component of this. It sets out: the initial statement of scope, and how you intend to handle changes in scope, as well as monitor and sign-off delivery.
Which comes first? It's the chicken. No, it's the egg.
Seriously, project planning is an iterative process, where aspects are refined and that triggers us to review other aspects that we already have a provisional statement on. Our goal is full self-consistency.
That said, defining scope is an early stage activity. At definition stage, we define the Goal, Objectives and Scope. We then refine the scope during planning stage, making it more precise. Take a look at the video on Project Hierarchy: ua-cam.com/video/t7iXFYa8rRs/v-deo.html - and What is MoSCoW Analysis?: ua-cam.com/video/lO5gftPdQT8/v-deo.html We use MOSCOW Analysis to help define scope at the outset.
Thank you so much for quick reply, but you assume we pass the begining of planning process and the startup phase and I assume we still at the begining
So, how come the project management plan popped as an input for scope management plan ? I imagine lt like, we still at the startup of planning and we don't have any project management plan up to this point, and we still on our way to define scope to build on, So from where we got project mangement plan to put it as an input for scope mangement plan.
* According to PMBOK
4.2.3.1 Project Management Plan
The project management plan is the document that describes how the project will be executed, monitored, and
controlled. It integrates and consolidates all of the subsidiary plans and baselines from the planning processes.
Hi. I think the answer lies in the iterative nature of planning. From the earliest stages we start to develop our project plan, and develop our scoping statement and Scope Management Plan in parallel. Each feeds into the other.
I hope the PMI won't be upset if I say that I find the distinction between the two as a little artificial. In the real world they are often parts of the same document.
Thank you so much again for your interest and your quick reply,
But friendly speaking, I'm still confused !!
regardless of the iterartive nature of planning
Do we plan in parallel way or in a rolling wave way?
for example can we define scope before collecting the requirements, could we have scope statement before or at the same time we get requirements documentations?
I think there is some planing could happen in parallel but others not and the master plan or the project management plan is a result and a collection of all planning processes,
This may bring us back to the question: what is the first step in building project management plan, Is it the scope definition or a group of planning processes happening in parallel? Here if the answer one of the two questions or both of them the project management plan still a result and an output and we can't consider it as an input for one of its components in the early stage of planning before doing any reviewing or refining.
AbdUlhamid, you raise good questions and expose the complicated nature of the topic. There are different ways we do planning and different ways to do scoping and this format cannot do justice to your question.
So, I have added your question to the list of topics for my feature length articles at OnlinePMCourses.com. Sometime (but not immediately, because feature articles are thorough and planned in advance) I'll write a 1,500-2,500 word answer.
In the meantime, the following article may be too basic, but it may help you: onlinepmcourses.com/define-project-scope/
Mike
Hello, I have to prepare a proposal. In that case what is the scope of the study. In other words, What is scope?
The breadth and the depth of the work you are proposing to do - that is the scope of your proposal.
Or, to put it another way, everything that your prospective client wants, which you are offering to do.
So, to scope your proposal, you need to understand you client's wants and needs, and make a judgement about what to offer them . This will be a commercial judgement.
It may be anything from 'everything your client wants' to 'some of what they need'. That depends on the spread of your capabilities and where you think you can offer value that exceeds the price you need to charge.
Indeed
Do you have full fledged courses or can you customize a program for my team?
Both. I have full online courses at OnlinePMCourses.com (and can offer team licensing rates) or I can deliver live or hybrid courses designed for your team. Contact me at mike@onlinepmcourses.com with details of what you need.
Is it free to do the course of pm
Yes, I have a free Project management Fundamentals course: onlinepmcourses.com/project-management-tools/free-project-management-resources/
There's a question from the book Q&As for the PMBOK GUIDE 6TH but I am not sure about the answer , it's reall confusing. Sir please help
Question :
All of the following are true about the project scope management plan EXCEPT:
A .It enables the creation of the WBS from the detailed project scope statement.
B .It describes how the scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated.
C .It can be formal or informal, broadly framed or highly detailed, based on the needs of the
project.
D .It is not related to the project management plan.
The answer here written is option D , how can smp not related to pmp as it is a component plan .. i chose the option a but in some websites i found the answer is D ..
Rameez, I am not a PMI ATP - nor even a PMP. I find some of the questions PMI offers in the PMP exam odd - and also remember that the quality of the questions that third parties develop are variable. All of which to say... Don't sweat one example that you can't reconcile. I have no idea what PMI would say is the correct answer, but, if I were sitting an exam and saw this question, I would answer A. Fig 5-3 in PMBOK 6 clearly shows a connection between the Plan Scope Management process and the Project Management Plan.
Do take a look at my detailed article: Scope Management Plan: Everything You Need to Know onlinepmcourses.com/scope-management-plan-everything-you-need-to-know/
Good luck!
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