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What is Project scope?
What is Scope management?
What is Conceptual Development:
Successful conceptual development requires:
What is a Statement of Work (SOW)?
Work Breakdown Structure
Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) allows what:
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Contractual Documentation
Most contracts contain 3 things:
What is Scope Reporting:
Project Closeout:
Exercise 1
a) Please explain what is meant by SMART project targets
b) Why is it useful to define project goals according to the SMART scheme
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time Based
Exercise 2
Please transform the following project goal definition using the SMART technique:
“To have my race car repainted”
Project Scoping – using a Quad Chart
Exercise 3 - solution
Exercise 4 Work Breakdown structure
Exercise 5
Build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for your project using deliverables
that You have to define.
Your project: Reroofing a house
Number each activity based on levels
(1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, ..., 1.1.1,....1.1.1.1,…)
Exercise 6: RAM
What are the benefits of designing a Responsibility
Assignment Matrix (RAM) for a project?
Case Study: Project Management at Dotcom.com
Question 1:
How would you begin redesigning Dotcom.com’s project management processes
to minimize the problems they are experiencing with poor scope management?
Question 2:
How do the company’s consulting clients contribute to the problems with “scope
creep?” If you were to hold a meeting with a potential customer, what message
would you want them to clearly understand?
Question 3:
How do you balance the need to involve clients with the equally important need to
freeze project scope in order to complete the project in a timely fashion?
Question 4:
Why are configuration management and project change control so difficult to
perform in the midst of a complex software development project such as those
undertaken by Dotcom.com?
