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5.1 Scope Planning

Defining and managing the project scope influences the project’s overall success. Each project requires a careful balance of tools, data sources, methodologies, processes and procedures, and other factors to ensure that the effort expended on scoping activities is commensurate with the project’s size, complexity, and importance. For example, a critical project could merit formal, thorough, and time- intensive scoping activities, while a routine project could require substantially less documentation and scrutiny. The project management team documents these scope management decisions in the project scope management plan. The project scope management plan is a planning tool describing how the team will define the project scope, develop the detailed project scope statement, define and develop the work breakdown structure, verify the project scope, and control the project scope. The development of the project scope management plan and the detailing of the project scope begin with the analysis of information contained in the project charter Section 4.1, the preliminary project scope statement Section 4.2, the latest approved version of the project management plan Section 4.3, historical information contained in the organizational process assets Section 4.1.1.4, and any relevant enterprise environmental factors Section 4.1.1.3. 5 Figure 5-3. Scope Planning: Inputs, Tools Techniques, and Outputs

5.1.1 Scope Planning:

Inputs .1 Enterprise Environmental Factors Enterprise environmental factors include items such as the organization’s culture, infrastructure, tools, human resources, personnel policies, and marketplace conditions that could affect how project scope is managed. .2 Organizational Process Assets Organizational process assets are the formal and informal policies, procedures, and guidelines that could impact how the project’s scope is managed. Those of particular interest to project scope planning include: A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK ® Guide Third Edition 2004 Project Management Institute, Four Campus Boulevard, Newtown Square, PA 19073-3299 USA 107