Input

Project Management Plan
Contract Document
Enterprise Environment Factors
Organization Process Assets
Work performance information
deliverables

Tools and Techniques

Project Management Methodology
Project Management Information System
Expert Judgment

Outputs

Administrative Closure Procedure
Contract Closure Procedure
Final Product, Service, or Result
Organizational Process assets updates

Benefits for developing a project scope statement.

1. A common under standing among team and stakeholders
2. A reference for judging success
3. A baseline

Input

1. Organizational process assets
2. Project charter
3. Preliminary project scope statement
4. Project scope management plan
5. Approved change requests

Tools and Techniques

1. Product Analysis
2. Alternative Identification
3. Expert Judgment
4. Stakeholder Analysis

Output

1. Detailed Project Scope statement
2. Requested changes
3. Project Scope Management Plan updates

Scope Planning:

Why:

1. Establish a common understanding
2. Describe Project Deliverables
3. Measure Project Performance

Inputs

1. Enterprise environmental factors – anything internal or external that affects the project
2. Process assets
3. Project Charter
4. Preliminary Score Statement

Tools and Techniques

1. Expert Judgment
2. Templates, Forms, and Standards

Output

1. Project Scope Management Plan

Input

1. Project Management Plan
2. Work Performance Information
3. Recommended Preventative Actions
4. Recommended Corrective Actions
5. Recommended Defect Repair
6. Deliverables
7. Requested Changes

Tool and Techniques

1. Project Management Methodology
2. Project Management Information System
3. Expert Judgment

Output

1. Approved Change Request
2. Rejected Change Request
3. Project Management Plan Updates
4. Approved Corrective Actions
5. Approved Preventative Actions
6. Approved Defect Repair
7. Validated Defect Repair
8. Deliverables

Inputs

1. Project Management Plan
2. Work Performance Information
3. Requested Change Requests

Tools and Techniques

1. Expert Judgment
2. Earn Value Technique (measure)
3. Project Management Methodology

Output

1. Recommended Corrective Actions
2. Recommended Preventative Actions
3. Recommended Defect Repair
4. Requested Changes

Inputs

1. Project Management Plan
2. Approved corrective actions
3. Approved preventive actions
4. Approved defect repairs
5. Approved change requests
6. Validated defect repair
7. Administrative closure procedures

Tools and Techniques

1. Project Management Methodologies
2. Project Management Information Systems

Output

1. Deliverables
2. Work Performance Information
3. Requested Changes
4. Implemented Change Requests
5. Implemented Corrective Actions
6. Implemented Preventative Actions
7. Implemented Defect Repair

The areas that a project management plan helps guide are communication, Decision, and Leadership.

Communication

1. Risks
2. Assumptions
3. Decisions

Decision

1. Schedule
2. Cost
3. Quality
4. Scope

Leadership

1. Executing
2. Directing
3. Controlling

To create a project management plan

Inputs:

1. Preliminary Scope Statement
2. Project Management Process
3. Organizational Process Assets
4. Enterprise Environmental Factors

Tools and Techniques

1. Project Management Methodologies
2. Project Management Information System
3. Expert Judgment

Output

1. Work Execution
2. Project Process
3. Implementation Level of Process
4. Tools and Techniques
5. Life Cycle
6. Project Management Tools and Techniques
7. Change Monitoring and Control Plan
8. Configuration Management plan
9. Communication Plan
10. Management Reviews
11. Baseline
12. Management Plan
• Scope
• Schedule
• Cost
• Communication
• Process Improvement metric
• Staffing
• Quality
• Risk
• Procurement