Project Scope Management

XV

Foreword

One of my favorite quotes attributed to Yogi Berra, but adopted

and modied by many other authors, reads as follows:

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll probably end up

some place else.”

is is the essential challenge of every project. Let me repeat that:

every project, no matter the project type or domain. In short, for any

type of project to have any realistic chance of success at arriving at a

desired outcome, there must be a generally accepted set of goals and

objectives. e goals will be represented by broad statements of aims

or results that are sought by the sponsoring organization, statements

that are more specic ...