When it comes to managing a project one of the most important things to keep in mind and to do on the
project is the scope the scope is the work that needs to get done on the project.
Ten knowledge errors.
I think that the scope is probably the most important one because it's the work that actually has to
get done.
Painting this room White is the school installing a new software.
Is the school building a new software.
Is is the scope building a house.
Is the scope so what's the scope the scope is the work that needs to get done.
Now when we're going to be managing the project's scope it's all going to be about getting the work
done and only the work done so let's see what PEM boxes 10 boxes includes the process required to ensure
that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project.
Now let's talk about this.
It includes the work and only the work required which means you don't do anything more than what the
scope originally set to have in it.
So for example if your project is to paint this room white you should not be changing the mold and you
should not be changing the floors.
You should not be changing the ceiling.
It's the work and only the work required to get the job done.
Managing the project scope is primary concern with defining and control what is and what is not included
in the project.
Again it goes back to the same thing.
What are we going to get done.
On what should we not be getting done in scope management.
You have six processes we need to cover in this section we're going to cover all these processes in
this section in detail.
So from Plan scope management we can get scope manageable plan requirements management plan collect
requirements get requirements documentation and a traceability matrix defined the scope to get the scope
statement.
We're going to create the WB s then we're going to get the scope baseline which would include the WB
s the scope statement to the UBS dictionary.
We're gonna kind of validate the scope in that process.
We're going to make sure that the customer gives us an acceptance on the deliverables and then finally
we're going to control the scope to make sure to work stays on scope.
Now there's a couple of terms that back this covered that I want to mention to you is that something
called a product scope and the other one is called a project scope.
Now a product scope is the features and functions that characterizes product service a result a project
scope is a work that is needed to be accomplished to deliver a product service or result with the specified
features and functions.
Now let's talk about this a Microsoft Exchange Server allows me to send and receive emails.
It allows me to share contacts share calendars and have a shared task this it allows me to sync to mobile
devices.
That is not a project scope that is a product scope that is a product scope because it is telling me
the features and functionality of the Microsoft Exchange Server.
The other one is a project scope.
The project would be to install the Microsoft Exchange Server across two servers and update 50 workstations
and 10 mobile devices.
So the product scope is telling me what we're going to get out of the product.
What are the features and functionality we can get out of the product versus the project scope is going
to tell me how are we going to deliver those features and functionality to the actual customers.
Two other words I want to mention is gold plating and scope creep.
Now one of the things we should be doing in a project is to prevent gold plating gold plating is doing
extra work that's not in the scope and that's a little different in scope creep.
You see gold plating is let's say your job is to paint this room and you're gonna paint this from white.
So you have three days to do it and you have a thousand dollars so you finished the job two days and
you spent six hundred dollars.
You got an extra day you got it for 400 dollars so you decided you know what I'm going to paint the
closet I'm a paint another room just doing some extra work that's gold plated it sounds good but you
don't do it for this exam.
You know what maybe in real life you might.
But in this particular exam you just don't you don't gold plate you do the work required and only the
work required prevent scope creep.
Now scope creep is on authorized work added to the scope.
Your job is to paint this room and people just keep adding work to it.
The original scope says to paint a wall white and people just kept.
Add in and add and add and add they said change the mold and then it's a change of floor.
The key thing here is that no one updates the scope this scope still says look if I pick up the scope
statement or disco baseline it's going to say paint a wall white.
It's not going to say about the floor in which we've already did the floor.
It's not going to talk about the ceiling majority changes seen in that scope creep so scope creep is
extra work.
That's.
Keep at it.
Now you're probably thinking So what's the difference between that and gold plated gold plating is generally
extra work but it's generally comes at the end of the project with extra money that's left over extra
time scope creep is the worse one scope creep is add in an add in work of pushing up the budget pushing
up the schedule you pushing up to work everything is grown except the actual scope documents gold plating.
The thing with gold plating is that you might finish that extra work within the time in the budget that
was allocated originally for the project.
But in any which case for your exam you don't do it you don't gold plate you don't do any kind of scope
creep.
Now with that in mind let's get into the processes.
We get a bunch of processes to cover and a.
I believe dissection is one of the most important sections review it a couple of times before you move
on to schedule.
So let's get started now and all these processes that we need to cover.