Summary

In this chapter, you reviewed how the scope and requirements management plans are essential to outline how the scope of work and collection of requirements will occur, how changes and updates are managed, and how the scope will get accepted. Next, you reviewed the most important scope document, called the scope statement. This document defines what will and what will not be included in the scope of work, and may go through several updates before it is approved as part of the scope baseline.

We then reviewed the most important planning document, called the WBS, and its companion document, the WBS dictionary. The WBS is a hierarchical decomposition of 100% of the scope of work, and that is the definition to remember for the exam regarding the WBS. Then you reviewed the scope baseline and its importance for the rest of the project planning process. Finally, we reviewed the validate and control scope processes to ensure the deliverables that we spent so long planning for will...