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Difference between Scope Management Plan and Requirements Management Plan

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The scope of a project specifies the boundaries of the project and its made up of the things the project should achieve (requirements).

Why do we have 2 separate documents: Scope Management Plan and Requirements Management Plan?

What are their similarities and core differences?
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Here is a good start for an answer...

Requirement is more general...
Scope is broken down as more specific...

http://pmzilla.com/difference-between-scop...management-plan
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
That's a good start...
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Take a look to the definition of scope and you will have the answer. On the other side the focus are project requirements.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Might be seen the scope management plan tell you how to get there and requirement management plan tell how to confirm your there!
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Seema Sonkiya Head Business Analysis Practices, PMI-PBA trainer| iZenBridge Consultancy Private Limited Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Here is my detailed view : http://forum.izenbridge.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6685
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Morne Beeslaar Managing Director| Faolan Consulting Pretoria, South Africa
Requirements capture the need of the client,
Scope defines your understanding of the clients requirements and sets battery limits which allows scope and change management.
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Andre Cassule FEED and Detailed Engineering, Project management| DEAL Luanda, Luanda, Angola
Scope defines the boundaries of a project.

Requirements are the expectations which the product need to fulfill (are the things your project needs built). Requirements are collected from the customer, stakeholders and Sponsor.
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Kgobalale John Malatji Projects Portfolio Manager | Noko-imp Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
I concur with Morne and Andre
1. Projects begin with objectives, which is the purpose/aim of the project.
2. Then follows what needs to be done to meet the objectives. This is the scope and deliverables.
3. Then follows criteria of executing the project and the criteria of the deliverables, which are basically the requirements
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Atif Qureshi Outreach Manager| Ultahost Karachi, Pakistan
To be more precise:
1. Requirements management plan is more about clients requirement and expectation. It is general document comparatively.
2. Project scope statement is the view from a project manager indicating what is to be achieved, what is included and what is not. It is a detailed document comparatively.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
The key word in both documents is management. The documents explain how you will manage the scope and how you will manage the requirements.

Given the definitions generously provided by our colleagues, you should write out how you will manage each one. Don't be surprised if there is a lot of common activities and steps.
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