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PSG105 - Scope Management Techniques

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Course #:	PSG105
PDU:	14
Price:	Call for Pricing
Length:	2 days
Prereq:	Project Management Frameworks and Planning; Earned Value Management

Your team can deliver your project on time and within budget – yet your client may still say, “It’s not what we expected,” and deem it a failure. As a project manager, you want a satisfied client. But how can you balance the client’s changing needs against the realities of your budget and schedule? The answer is scope management. Scope management doesn’t mean you automatically reject every change your client requests. Instead, it’s a formal process that helps you define the limits of your project based on the proper needs and priorities – to make sure you achieve the goals on which you and your client originally agreed. This course will give you proven tools and techniques you can use to define and control the scope of your projects. That includes accounting for scope creep, handling change requests, controlling change within your client’s organization, and accurately assessing the impact of scope changes on your budget, schedule and staffing plans all using using MS Project.

Topics:

Day 1

Defining Project Scope
Documenting Project Scope
Verifying Project Scope
Developing a Scope Change Control Process
Managing Scope Change Requests
Controlling the Rate of Change and Change Requests
Scope Creep vs. Requirements Creep
Scope Change Control Budgets
Role of the Change Control Board
How to Manage Scope and Still Satisfy your Customers

Day 2

Scope Change Simulation

Audience: Team leads, project managers, project coordinators, project schedulers, project administrators, project analysts, project leaders and program managers.

Learning objectives:

How to use one document to clearly define project scope
7 reasons why most scope change control processes fail
The best techniques for eliminating scope creep
The secret to eliminating scope conflicts between you and your sponsor
A proven approach to managing the cost and schedule impacts of change
How to create the perfect change control process
How to avoid being controlled by change requests
5 ground rules for every change control board

PMBOK Knowledge Areas:

Integration management
Scope management
Time management
Cost management
Quality management
Human resource management
Communications management
Risk management
Procurement management

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