Project Scope Management

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Preface

Why a Book on Scope Management?

e readers of my previous book, Delivering Exceptional Project Results:

A Practical Guide to Project Selection, Scoping, Estimation and

Management, know that I have already tried to highlight and, it is

hoped, managed to shed some light on some of the problems of scope

denition and management. I am referring to the fact that business

requirements elicitation (i.e., the initial phase of product scope deni-

tion) is underdeveloped in today’s project management science with

the exception of the IT and software development sectors, where scope

denition (aka business analysis) is relatively advanced but excluded

from the project manager’s domain of responsibilities.

As a result, most industries ...