The scope tag is used for questions about how to effectively manage the scope of a project. Also, use this tag for scope-reduction questions.
Questions tagged [scope]
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What's the difference between Scope Creep vs Scope Change?
Not a beginner question.
I've seen too many otherwise competent PM's that don't know the difference, and I'm curious how others define it. Bear in mind, Scope Creep and Gold-plating are not the same either.
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Managing Gold Plating Scope Creep
Although scope creep often comes from stakeholders, it can also come from project team members in the form of Gold Plating ("when technologists augment the original requirements because of a bias toward "technical perfectionism" or because the…
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Should impact on schedule because of scope change be reported as delay?
In my company, if there is any delay in the schedule I need to report the delay-reason and countermeasure. Sometimes this delay happens because of scope change.
My question is: Should I report it as "delay" in that case what would be the…
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What instrument to use to Define Scope of a software development project?
Define Scope is one of the processes to be accomplished in any project. An output of this process is a Scope Statement (according to PMBOK). This artifact identifies boundaries of a project and helps Project Manager to control its execution.
The…
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Change requests processing best practice
as usual question about change requests management.
The situation is the following:
Client asked to develop a new software solution based on the existing one. There must be the same functions + some enhancements.
This is firm fixed price project…
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How to maintain software requirements specification (SRS) for a small agile project?
What are the best possible instruments/tools to maintain an SRS in a small agile project (up to 10 people)? How to keep this document(s) available to the entire team, to enable its baseline (and re-baseline), version control, etc. What is your…
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How to measure scope change?
Is there a way to somewhat-objectively measure changes to project scope? Our team (a new PMO) is looking for a way to measure how much the projects we manage change over time. How can we measure changes to the actual project scope (beyond a basic…
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What is the difference between scope creep and scope gap?
As per understanding from given link, scope creep is unapproved additional works, requirements or features of a new product. But I am not clear about: what, then, is scope gap? As per definition, scope gap is specifications or activities added to…
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How do you respond to Out of Scope requests?
In my software development project, the type of contract is fixed and the client gave the requirements. In the requirements, there are detailed specifications The client then asked for additional work that is related to the scope of the project.
Are…
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Vendor selection being squeezed in as project's scope - how to best respond?
In one of projects, the customer is trying to include the vendor selection as part of the fixed cost project. While the scope of the fixed cost project clearly says to work with "an external system that provides xyz functionality", nowhere does it…
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Issue in managing changes
I was coordinating a Project and we constantly faced a problem where the customer was not ready to pay for change requests.
The project was to automate most of the processes of an existing system i.e. instead of manually uploading a file using forms…
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How do I begin scoping a project I have little knowledge of?
I have no experience in scoping things. The projects I've worked on since I've started have been scoped and I just do what is asked in the stories and features. My current task is scoping an upcoming project. This is a 16 year old, 500k+ line…
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How to track impact on planning due to scope changes?
I face a recurrent issue where actual work done for my projects by team constantly surpasses the planned work for the same. Primary reason being scope changes that leads to inclusion of new requirements.
I'm able handle this in terms of execution…
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