5.6 Control Scope
Process Definition
Controlling scope ensues that changes to the scope baseline are properly captured in the project plan or that changes and corrective actions are taken to bring scope activities into compliance with the plan. Variance analysis is a key tool for this process, and integrated change requests one of the primary outputs.Process Assessment
Controlling scope is important from two perspectives. It's important to keep the sponsor/customer from changing scope objectives after the project has been initiated and planned. It's also important to keep the design team from "over designing" the products. This is know as "shooting the engineer." Sometimes you just have to pull the trigger.
Figure 39. Control Scope: Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs. Reprinted from "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 5th Edition" by Project Management Institute, 2013, p. 136. Copyright 2013 by Project Management Institute, Inc. Reprinted without permission.
- Work Performance Data: Homework problem from PMGT 501 to develop a work performance data by calculating earned value variances. This is an important input for scope control
- Work Performance Information: This artifact is a brief overview of earned value management, a performance report that supports project document updates as an output of the integrated change control process.
- Accepted Deliverables: This document is an output of this process that acknowledges formally accepted deliverables for the project.