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Can someone explain what is the meaning of Project Scope?

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Tam Nguyen Annandale, Va, United States
Can someone explain what is the meaning of Project Scope?
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Sachin Pereira Oracle Solutions Architect Implementation Lead, Project Leader| HB Associates Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
Project scope explains what work is in scope and what is not. It has broad project sponsor's expectations. Scope specifies project goals, deliverable, tasks, costs and deadlines. It forms guard-rail for project manager & other stakeholders.
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Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Project scope defines what needs to be delivered to satisfy a contract. The scope will include everything that is needed to deliver the final solution. So all work products that is required by your project type to reach the end goal. These work products will differ depending on the contract but also the type of project i.e. a normal IT project will have different work product requirements than a construction project, so you submittal list won't always look the same.

But there are basic elements that will always be in scope such as project plan and schedule. To have frequent, and sometime heated debates about what is in/out of scope is normal even for project with very well defined contract.

As a simple example if you order a new car the user manual is included in the scope although it is not explicitly mentioned in the contract you signed, but the nice performance package is not as it is listed as an optional extra.
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2 replies by Tam Nguyen
Jun 04, 2017 8:53 PM
Tam Nguyen
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Thank you so much
Jun 04, 2017 8:53 PM
Tam Nguyen
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much appreciate. Now I got it
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Mohamad Fararjeh Project Management - Electrical Engineer| San Francisco Bar Area Rapid Transit (BART) Santa Clara, Ca, United States
The scope statement is a detailed description on of the product/project, deliverables, assumptions, constraints. The scope statement document the entire scope. The following are major items of the scope statement:
Project/Product scope description, acceptance criteria, deliverables, exclusions, constraints, and assumptions.
The scope has to be detailed.
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Tam Nguyen Annandale, Va, United States
Jun 04, 2017 6:11 AM
Replying to Anton Oosthuizen
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Project scope defines what needs to be delivered to satisfy a contract. The scope will include everything that is needed to deliver the final solution. So all work products that is required by your project type to reach the end goal. These work products will differ depending on the contract but also the type of project i.e. a normal IT project will have different work product requirements than a construction project, so you submittal list won't always look the same.

But there are basic elements that will always be in scope such as project plan and schedule. To have frequent, and sometime heated debates about what is in/out of scope is normal even for project with very well defined contract.

As a simple example if you order a new car the user manual is included in the scope although it is not explicitly mentioned in the contract you signed, but the nice performance package is not as it is listed as an optional extra.
Thank you so much
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Tam Nguyen Annandale, Va, United States
Jun 04, 2017 6:11 AM
Replying to Anton Oosthuizen
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Project scope defines what needs to be delivered to satisfy a contract. The scope will include everything that is needed to deliver the final solution. So all work products that is required by your project type to reach the end goal. These work products will differ depending on the contract but also the type of project i.e. a normal IT project will have different work product requirements than a construction project, so you submittal list won't always look the same.

But there are basic elements that will always be in scope such as project plan and schedule. To have frequent, and sometime heated debates about what is in/out of scope is normal even for project with very well defined contract.

As a simple example if you order a new car the user manual is included in the scope although it is not explicitly mentioned in the contract you signed, but the nice performance package is not as it is listed as an optional extra.
much appreciate. Now I got it

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