Project Scope Verification and Change Control

Overview/Description
 Changes to a project's scope can wreak havoc on schedules, on budgets, on team morale, and on the project manager's nerves. Most experienced project managers know that scope modifications are inevitable. How these modifications are managed can often mean the difference between chaos and smooth program execution. In this course, the learner will examine how to verify the work results of the project against the planned project scope. The concept of scope change control and how to manage it will also be examined in this course. Upon completion of this course, the learner will understand the fundamentals of scope verification and scope change control, according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) 2000 Edition, published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).

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

Expected Duration
4.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Scope Verification

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the scope verification process.
  • identify examples of the inputs to scope verification.
  • sequence the steps for facilitating a scope verification inspection meeting.
  • facilitate a scope verification inspection meeting for a given project.
  • identify the components of formal acceptance documentation.

    • Scope Change Control: Inputs

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the inputs to scope change control.
  • identify the reasons why a WBS must be reviewed during the input phase of scope change control.
  • match the reasons for change requests to examples.
  • match the other inputs to scope change control to examples.

    • Scope Change Control: Tools and Techniques, and Outputs

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the tools, techniques, and outputs for scope change control.
  • identify the work effort and cost estimate formulas used to determine the potential impact of a given change request.
  • choose the appropriate status for a given change request.
  • match performance measurement indicators to their formulas.
  • forecast the project completion estimates for a given project.
  • match the outputs from scope change control to examples.

    • Course Number: PROJ0433