Project Scope Management

Incomplete or missed requirements, omissions, ambiguous product features, lack of user involvement, unrealistic customer expectations, and the proverbial scope creep can result in cost overruns, missed deadlines, poor product quality, and can very well ruin a project. Project Scope Management: A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Prod

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Jamal Moustafaev, MBA, PMP, president and founder of Thinktank Consulting, is an internationally acclaimed expert in the areas of project/portfolio management, project scoping, process improvement, and corporate training. He has completed projects for private sector companies and government organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, including the US Department of Defense (USA), Siemens (Germany), Petronas Oil (Malaysia), and TeliaSonera (Sweden), to name a few.

Moustafaev is a certified Project Management Professional (PMPR). He holds an MBA in Finance and a BBA (Finance and Management Science) from Simon Fraser University. In addition to teaching a highly acclaimed Project Management Essentials course at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (Vancouver, Canada), Moustafaev also offers several project and portfolio management corporate seminars through his company:

• Practical Portfolio Management-Selecting and Managing the Right Projects
• Successful Hands-On Management of IT and Software Projects
• Successful Hands-On Management of Modern-Day Projects

• Project Scope Management

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Introduction to Scope Management: Who? What? Why? History of Scope Management. Writing Project Charters. Requirements, Customers, Users. High-Level Scope Elicitation. Detailed Requirements Elicitation. Documenting Requirements: Information Technology and Software Development Projects. Documenting Requirements: Engineering and Product Development Projects. Documenting Requirements: Multidisciplinary Projects. Creating the Requirements Management Plan and Requirements Traceability Matrix. Final Product Design. Creating Work Breakdown Structures and WBS Dictionaries. Troubleshooting Scope Problems. Scope Verification. Controlling Project Scope.