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. This book explains how to elicit, document, and manage requirements to control project scope creep. It also describes how to manage project stakeholders to minimize the risk of an ever-growing list of user requirements. The book examines five different projects and traces their development from a project scope management perspective.
Table of Contents:
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.
About the Author :
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
Review :
The book unites the best practices of scope management from the fields of traditional project management, information technology, software development, engineering, product development, architecture, construction, and multidisciplinary projects. It is based on the most advanced and popular works by prominent authors and contains the latest advances in project scope management. It also concentrates on the hands-on practicality of tools and techniques rather than focusing on their academic prominence. Best of all, Jamal’s book is easy to read and uses informal, nonacademic language to explain all the key points.—R. Max Wideman, P. Eng., FCSCE, FEIC, FICE, FPMI, Vancouver, British Columbia
