3Defining the Project
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
• Collect requirements, including identifying problems or opportunities that a project will address.
• Define a project in terms of its basic objectives (time, cost, and scope), and understand the basic project reviews that may be conducted.
• Create a work breakdown structure for a simple project.
This chapter covers the initial steps in project planning. The first step is to define the problem or opportunity that the project will address, and collect project requirements. The next step is to define the project objectives in terms of time, cost, and project ...
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