The purpose of the assessment is to gauge competence in developing a project scope management plan. You will be presented with a project scenario for which you are required to develop a scope management plan. DO NOT present a scope management plan for a project of your choice. You MUST cite and reference any theory applied. Marks will be awarded for correct representation per section in the plan as well as for appropriately labelled original extracts (diagrams, graphs, tables, charts). Extracts must be placed immediately before or after the discussion in the relevant section of the scope management plan and reference MUST be made to the extract in the discussion to get that question's full marks. The project scope management plan must be no more than TEN (10) pages. Use the RUBRIC to guide your development of the project scope management plan.

SCENARIO:

You have recently joined Neel Gen Inc. as a project manager. Due to the high turnover the company has experienced over the past two years, they have taken a major decision to re-engineer the way they do things. Hence, currently there is a Culture Change project in-progress but still at the planning stage. The previous project manager submitted a business case for the project. The Project Evaluation Board subsequently approved the project with a commitment of funds and other available resources (inclusive of project team members with key skills).

QUESTION 1 [100 MARKS]

Your first responsibility as the project manager together with your project team is to design the scope management plan for this project. Keep in mind that the quality of your plan will be benchmarked against the successes of the previous project manager (even with scope creep regularly rearing its head on many projects). The scope management plan for this project should therefore be all encompassing, illustrating every finite aspect of scope management planning and should simultaneously be explicit to all relevant stakeholders.

Your scope management plan should deliberate on and exhibit the following:

1.1 An introduction (5 Marks)

Comments:

• Introduce how the scope management plan will be developed to manage and control the scope and requirements on project activities
• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question

1.2 Collecting requirements (15 Marks)

Comments:

• Discussion on the inputs, tools, techniques and outputs utilised in collecting requirements for the project.
• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question

1.3 Defining the scope (5 Marks)

Comments:

• Definition of what the scope of the project is keeping in mind the triple constraints.
• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question

1.4 Developing a project charter (20 Marks)

Comments:

• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question
• The requirements for supporting a project's business case are established as described in the project charter Included are:

1. Project purpose and justification

2. measurable project objectives & related success criteria

3. high level requirements

4. high level project description

5. high level risks,

6. summary milestone schedule

7. summary budget stakeholder list

8. project approval requirements

9. assigned project manager,

10. responsibility & authority level and

11. name & authority of sponsor authorizing the project charter.

1.5 Developing a project scope statement (20 Marks)

Comments:

• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question
• Definition of the work that will be performed and the work that is excluded to determine how well the project management team can control the overall project scope., included are:

1. product scope description,

2 Acceptance Criteria,

3 Deliverables,

4 Project Exclusions,

5 Constraints,

6 Assumptions

1.6 Developing the WBS (10 Marks)

Comments:

• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure to break down the scope of a project into more manageable components.
• Discuss the inputs, tools, techniques and outputs utilised in creating the WBS.

1.7 Validating the scope (10 Marks)

Comments:

• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question
• Critically explain the steps involved in scope validation.
• Explain the inputs, tools, techniques and outputs utilised in planning for scope validation.

1.8 Controlling the scope (10 Marks)

Comments:

• In-text referencing and Citation required
• List all references at the end of the question
• Critically explain the steps involved in scope control.
• Explain the inputs, tools, techniques and outputs utilised in planning for 10 scope control
• Plan to deal with scope creep.

1.9 Conclusion (5 Marks)

Comment

• Scope management planning summary