subject: What Is Project Scope Management? [print this page] Scope means the work required to be done as part of the project.
Project Scope management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully.
Project Scope management is not only concerned about what is their in the scope but also ensures that what is not their in the scope is also clearly identified.
The following is some of the typical activities that happen as part of the project scope management:
Constantly checking to make sure that all the work which is part of the project is being done.
Not letting people randomly add to the project scope. If you do not enforce this, defining the project scope boundaries would be really difficult.
Preventing Gold Platting, i.e. doing more than what is required as part of Project Scope.
Why Gold Platting? Because, if you look at the global project statistics, less than 40% project are successful. So, you should focus on completing your project successfully by just doing what is required as part of your project than to do some thing which is not required and increase your chances of failure.
At first, this 40% data might be difficult for you to digest. A Project is classified as successful only if it meets all its objectives and is done within time and cost budgets. Of course, you can do any project, if there is no time and budget constraints.
Product Scope means the features and functions that characterize a product, service or result. Remember, do not always visualize a tangible product, here in this case, even a well packaged service is also considered as product. For example, Banking guys call each of their services as Product. So, Saving Account is one of their products, mutual fund is another product.
Where as, Project Scope is the Work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product, service or result with the specified features and functions.
