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PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT

Most of the material in Section 5 of the PMBOK® Guide is applicable to scope management for software projects. This section of the Software Extension presents additional considerations for managing software project scope.

As stated in the introduction to Section 5 of the PMBOK® Guide: Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. This section of the Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide presents additional considerations for managing the scope of a software project.

Also from the introduction to Section 5 of the PMBOK® Guide:

“In the project context, the term scope can refer to: ...

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