Project Scope Management – Process Groups

What is Project Scope Management?

Project Scope Management is the process that helps understand and record an entire project process, including goals, tasks, deliverables, budgets, and deadlines.

While a lot can change when it comes to big projects, having the project scope defined in the beginning can definitely help make it easier for teams to manage and run the project, including dealing with the changes.

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Five Process Groups in Project Scope Management:

• Collect Requirements
• Define Scope
• Create WBS
• Verify Scope
• Control Scope

Collect Requirements

This is the first process group in scope management. It is the process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project activities. The document for collecting requirements is developed in the project planning phase.

Define Scope

This is the process of developing a detailed description of the Project and product. So while Collecting the requirement list, all the different requirements of the Project and the resulting product or service are defined.

Create WBS

Creating a work breakdown structure is done using a technique called decomposition. It is basically the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller and more manageable components.

Verify Scope

This is the process that is a part of project monitoring and control process group. This process includes reviewing deliverables with the customer or sponsor to ensure that they are completed satisfactorily and obtaining formal acceptance of deliverables by the customer or sponsor.

Control Scope

Control Scope is the last process group of project scope management. It is again a part of project monitoring and control process group. Control scope is the process of monitoring the project's status and managing changes to the scope baseline. This process ensures that all requested changes and recommended corrective or preventive actions are processed through the integrated change control process.

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