Project Scope Management

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ProjeCt sCoPe ManageMent

“Would you like to spend one hour discussing the scope with me now,

or would you rather spend between 40 and 1,000 person-hours xing

our scope omissions and defects closer to the end of the project?” (See

Figure1.6, “Cost of mistakes” in Chapter 1.)

How Do We Find the Requirements Owners?

ere are multiple ways for the requirements to “nd their way” to

the scope analysts (see Figure4.9). ey can be communicated via the

sales department to the product manager, who bundles all the high-

level features and passes them on to the requirements analyst for fur-

ther investigation. At many product companies, this is the preferred ...