Project Initiation and Planning (PMBOK 2000)

Overview/Description
 Effective project scope management begins with a well-thought-out plan. By taking the right steps up front, before project kickoff, scope management can be a painless and satisfying process. With proper planning, you can avoid a weak or unrealistic work breakdown structure, seemingly endless scope modifications, and confusion among your team regarding reporting and work responsibilities. This course walks you through the steps to initiate scope management tasks and also introduces you to the scope planning process. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK ® Guide) 2000 Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI ®).

Target Audience
 Project managers, team leaders, program managers, group managers

Expected Duration
3.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Scope Initiation

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the scope initiation process.
  • match the inputs to consider when initiating the project scope process to examples.
  • identify examples of the steps of the benefit measurement method for project selection.
  • identify examples of expert judgment sources.
  • use expert judgment to assess the inputs needed to create the scope initiation outputs.
  • match the outputs from the scope initiation process to examples.

    • Scope Planning

  • recognize the benefit of understanding the scope planning process.
  • match the key components of the value method of product analysis to sample product descriptions.
  • perform a product analysis for a specified product.
  • match alternatives identification techniques to examples.
  • apply techniques to facilitate a meeting to gather all possible ideas for scope planning.
  • identify examples of the formulas used in benefit/cost analysis.
  • choose the most feasible project, based on the result of benefit/cost analysis.
  • match the outputs from scope planning to their examples.

    • Course Number: PROJ0431