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Chapter 2
Project Scoping
If project content is allowed to change freely, the rate of change will
eventually exceed the rate of progress.
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Developing the scope of a project is the early work where we decide what
boundaries we will set to limit the work of the project. Those boundaries (in
a network vulnerability assessment project) are defined by:
What physical limits will exist?
What parts of the organization will be included?
How much (if not all) of the network will be reviewed?
How many people will be consulted?
How many people will be working on the project?
Most failed projects come to grief because the scope of the project ...