Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

The Scope Statement

1. LO 5.3 Identify the steps in developing the scope statement.

The scope statement, the heart of scope management, reflects a project team’s best efforts at creating the documentation and approval of all important project parameters prior to proceeding to the development phase.10 Key steps in the scope statement process include:

• Establishing the project goal criteria. Goal criteria include cost, schedule, performance and deliverables, and key review and approval “gates” with important project stakeholders (particularly the clients). Deliverables are formally defined as “any measurable, tangible, verifiable outcome, result, or item that must be produced to complete a project or part of a project.” The goal criteria serve as ...