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Riad Alhammoud Project management| Langan Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
It is not clear for me exactly what validate scope means, and bow it differs from control scope?
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Ahmed Abdelnaeim Section Head – Engineering Networks| Al Hamra Real Estate Company Hawalli, Ha, Kuwait
Jun 30, 2019 12:00 AM
Replying to Eric Isom
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"Validate Scope is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables."
"Control Scope is the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline."
PMBOK® Guide, pp. 163, 167

Validate Scope is meeting with the customer and getting sign off on the project deliverables.
Control Scope is the work you do throughout the project to keep an eye on scope, including managing any changes to the scope.

Closely related is the Control Quality process, which measures whether the project deliverables meet the quality requirements. This should be done before you Validate Scope with the customer, and is an important input to the Validate Scope process.
Thanks
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Ilyana Yasko Kopstal, Luxembourg
Jun 30, 2019 12:00 AM
Replying to Eric Isom
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"Validate Scope is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables."
"Control Scope is the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline."
PMBOK® Guide, pp. 163, 167

Validate Scope is meeting with the customer and getting sign off on the project deliverables.
Control Scope is the work you do throughout the project to keep an eye on scope, including managing any changes to the scope.

Closely related is the Control Quality process, which measures whether the project deliverables meet the quality requirements. This should be done before you Validate Scope with the customer, and is an important input to the Validate Scope process.
Could you please elaborate for this one a bit more, sorry. So if "Validate scope" is "the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables" and "Control Scope" - is "the process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline", then is it correct to put it this way:
- you control scope in M&C process group to see if it meets the defined criteria for scope and if not you make corrections of the basiles
- Validate scope - you do in the end, to receive final approval of deliverable by customer after you performed "Controll scope" and "Control Quality".
- What si the difference between "Control Scope" and "Control Qulaity"?
thanks in advance
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Elie HIRWA Rwanda
From the explanation given by Eric, I can add something which I think is more important;

Validate scope goes with deliverables, this means that in order to achieve the project scope we have to undergo different deliverables. We validate the scope to accept one or more deliverables while the project kept going on


Control scope comes even before accepting one deliverable and after/while accepting one or more deliverables but the project work are still on, to have other deliverable (s) until we close the project
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Shawn Offenback Va, United States
If Control Scope is done on a daily basis and Validate Scope at the end upon deliverable acceptance, why is Validate Scope shown before Control Scope in the flow charts? What am I missing?
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1 reply by Keith Novak
Sep 13, 2023 8:31 PM
Keith Novak
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I'm not sure which flow charts you are referring to, but validation is not just done at the end. First you need to validate that you have the right scope, before you validate that you accomplished all the necessary requirements and objectives.

Many processes are not purely linear. There is feedback and control involved so process inputs can also be process outputs.
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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States
Sep 13, 2023 3:05 PM
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If Control Scope is done on a daily basis and Validate Scope at the end upon deliverable acceptance, why is Validate Scope shown before Control Scope in the flow charts? What am I missing?
I'm not sure which flow charts you are referring to, but validation is not just done at the end. First you need to validate that you have the right scope, before you validate that you accomplished all the necessary requirements and objectives.

Many processes are not purely linear. There is feedback and control involved so process inputs can also be process outputs.
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