Your project’s scope determines the value available. Too narrow a scope may miss significant value and too broad a scope can lead to analysis paralysis. Our simple solution is to distinguish between your initial ‘opportunity’ scope that looks for where the value is; and then the ‘solution’ scope that defines which elements of value the project will deliver.

Once defined your scope should be closely controlled and ‘owned’ by the governance team. This Guide provides the knowledge and guidance for both the project and governance team to jointly manage and control the project’s scope. 

It includes

• how to define the different scopes
• how to govern scope
• how to submit and assess proposed scope changes so as to preserve the project’s value
• how to action scope changes effectively
• how to track and monitor scope to ensure the project or portfolio’s focus has not been lost, and so on

Scope is not a matter of ‘set it and leave it’ or of continuous change - it is a critical control lever that you need to know how to manage effectively. This comprehensive Guide tells you how.

Essential reading for any project manager, governance team and PPMO.

How to manage your project scope

1. Understanding ‘scope’
2. Understanding ‘opportunity’ and ‘solution’ scope
3. Understanding ‘business’ and ‘project scope’
4. How to define your project’s scope
5. How to analyse each project’s scope
6. How to verify and agree your project’s scope
7. How to promulgate your project’s scope
8. How to justify a scope change request
9. How to assess a scope change request
10. How to action approved scope changes
11. How to report your project’s scope
12. How to govern your project’s scope
13. How to manage portfolio scope changes
14. How to track delivery to agreed scope

• Project Sponsors and Governance Teams - to understand the role of scope and how they need to control it
• Project Practitioners - to understand how to manage scope
• PPMOs - to be able to track and monitor the portfolio’s scope effectively
• Project Investment Committees - to understand the role and importance of project scope
• Executives/Board - to understand the role and importance of project scope
• Auditors - to understand the nature, role and importance of project scope.

• Focuses scope management on value optimization
• Enables the governance team to control project scope
• Enables flexibility within a controlled process
• Ensures changes to scope take into consideration the business value impacts
• Ensures all project stakeholders understand the dynamics of projects scope

Coming soon