Chapter 5

Scope Management

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.

—PMBOK® Guide

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

Next week there can’t be any crisis. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

“Scope creep” has always been the bane of traditional project managers, as requirements continue to change in response to customer business needs, changes in the industry, changes in technology, and things that were learned during the development process. Scope planning, scope definition, ...

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