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Farid Alsakkaf Ships Projects Manager| ADNOC Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
How we define Scope and Work from each other in project management language?
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
My recommendation: go to the PMBOK or to an oficial PMI document named "PMI Lexicon on PM Terms"
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Anupam India
Scope: The sum of the products, services, and results to be provided as a project.

Work: The amount of effort applied to produce a deliverable or to accomplish a task or a group of related tasks.
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Farid Alsakkaf Ships Projects Manager| ADNOC Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
yes I agree with you on definition of work but if you look into SOW (statement of work) that is input to "develop project charter" you will realize that what is meant by work in SOW is not just the "effort applied" but full scope as well.
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Farid Alsakkaf Ships Projects Manager| ADNOC Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
When it comes to what is required from a project, you will realize it is somehow difficult to differentiate between scope statement, SOW, procurement statement of work and statement of requirements.
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Anupam India
Farid, humble request please go through PMI Lexicon on PM Terms as mentioned by Sergio

https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/lexicon
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1 reply by Farid Alsakkaf
Nov 07, 2016 6:35 AM
Farid Alsakkaf
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I appreciate your reply, so with reply from Sergio. It is not about reference for where a terminology can be found but it is about giving chance to ourselves to "reflect" on the meanings given to us by others and to express the way how we understand it or believe on the way it is. It is a way to be away sometimes from being a prisoner of the word. It is for instigation of the discussion on the matter if you know what I mean.
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Farid Alsakkaf Ships Projects Manager| ADNOC Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Nov 07, 2016 6:19 AM
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Farid, humble request please go through PMI Lexicon on PM Terms as mentioned by Sergio

https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/lexicon
I appreciate your reply, so with reply from Sergio. It is not about reference for where a terminology can be found but it is about giving chance to ourselves to "reflect" on the meanings given to us by others and to express the way how we understand it or believe on the way it is. It is a way to be away sometimes from being a prisoner of the word. It is for instigation of the discussion on the matter if you know what I mean.
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1 reply by Anupam
Nov 07, 2016 7:09 AM
Anupam
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You may need to rephrase your question
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sorry, but this is the big mistake. When you embrace a profession or a science you need to go to the basic terms defined for those that have been created the profession or the science. One of the key reasons because project fails is because the ambiguity that has a hugh impact on requirements (project requirements in this case) work.
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1 reply by Farid Alsakkaf
Nov 07, 2016 10:38 PM
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True that we should go to the basic terms of the industry but at the same time we should make our own input whenever there is room for addition to cover any shortage as we are part of the industry and not just users of it. Sungjoon said "Work" in PM understanding is more than just "effort" and I agree with him.
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Sungjoon Park Coral Springs, Fl, United States
If it a word of work is with a big "W", it might be a different meaning from a word of work with a lower case "w". As Anupam commented above, work(lower case w) means the amount of effort to produce something. But Work with a big W is likely to have more comprehensive meaning like scope or deliverables.

Statement of Work is not necessarily inclusive of every effort to fully deliver the product but high level of product scope.

Hope it helps.
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Anupam India
Nov 07, 2016 6:35 AM
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I appreciate your reply, so with reply from Sergio. It is not about reference for where a terminology can be found but it is about giving chance to ourselves to "reflect" on the meanings given to us by others and to express the way how we understand it or believe on the way it is. It is a way to be away sometimes from being a prisoner of the word. It is for instigation of the discussion on the matter if you know what I mean.
You may need to rephrase your question
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Farid Alsakkaf Ships Projects Manager| ADNOC Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
I agree with Sungjoon.
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