Model Guideline #5
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Project Scope Evolution
Guideline Goals
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To provide a consistent basis for
presenting Need, Concept requirements, and working Scope
Descriptions
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To facilitate management decision
making, selection and allocation of resources, and
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Subsequently, to provide the
essential baseline for managing scope change requests
Expectations - 1
Justification
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The project will only be formally initiated if the original
Project Identification/Need statement also includes a statement
of potential benefits to justify the project in the first place
Expectations - 2
In the Concept Phase,
the Phase Manager will:
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Obtain Stakeholder input
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Develop a concept description based on the Approved Project
Requirements
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Select the preferred concept alternative and obtain its
acceptance
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Develop the Project Concept as a Scope Statement complete with
supporting Business Case as input to Phase 2
Expectations - 3
The Business Case must:
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Include an updated assessment of the benefits that will accrue
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Expressed in demonstrable and measurable terms
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Include a statement of the risks associated with the project
Expectations - 4
In the Definition
Phase, the Phase Manager will:
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Take the Project Concept description, identify the entire set of
systems and their technical requirements and
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Document a complete Systems Scope Description
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Including environmental, regulatory and safety requirements
if/as appropriate
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This document, including the supporting project justification
will be used for project scope control, and
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Final product verification
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During the production phases
Particulars - 1
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Documentation of the project's
scope is an evolutionary process culminating in the detailed
description of the planned end-product
Particulars - 2
These progressive
descriptions provide the content for the necessary approvals for
consuming resources successively through the project life cycle
Particulars - 3
The Project Concept
Document must:
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Begin to define the facility/system/product/service resulting
from the project
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To meet the affordable requirements
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In effect it is a "Vision Statement" for the whole project
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Specifically include the requirements as expressed by the
Stakeholders
Particulars - 4
During Project
Implementation
The detailed scope descriptions contained in
the full project documentation (the output from Phase 2) provides the
baseline for:
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Project Scope Control and
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Change Management
Definitions and Responsibility
Definitions to be
included
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Project Concept Document, Project Vision Statement, Project
Scope, Approved Project Requirements, Project Systems, Detailed
Scope Description
Primary responsibility
Responsible to