Chapter 5 - Scope Management

A project manager is leading the construction of a new office building. The project sponsor asks the project manager to email him a project document that was presented during the last project status meeting. The project sponsor states that he has forgotten the name of the document, but he remembers it contained the description, owner, source, priority, and status of product requirements. Which project document is the project sponsor requesting?

• The requirements management plan

• The requirements traceability matrix

• The scope management plan

• The work breakdown structure (WBS)

You are a project manager planning a project to develop a new payroll system, and you are currently in the process of determining, documenting, and managing stakeholder needs and requirements to meet project objectives. A project stakeholder has suggested that it would be helpful to have a visual depiction showing how people and other systems will interact with the new payroll system. You like the idea and want to address it. What is the best way to implement the stakeholder’s suggestion?

• Build a matrix diagram

• Develop a context diagram

• Design an affinity diagram

• Create a fishbone diagram

You are managing a project to develop a new robot for a mining rescue company. You are currently performing a monitoring and controlling project activity, and you have discovered that some of the project work has not been performed according to the plan. If these issues are not fixed before the next customer inspection, your project might be canceled. You have analyzed the situation, and the corrective action will only require a minor adjustment to a configuration element. What should you do first?

• Implement the corrective actions

• Submit a change request

• Consult the project sponsor

• Delay the scheduled customer inspection

You are managing the development of a new blood pressure cuff for a customer who provided you with the objectives and description of the cuff. You and your team are decomposing the customer's high-level requirements to the level of detail needed to design the blood pressure cuff and therefore define the scope of the product. In what activity are you involved?

• Technical performance analysis

• Create WBS

• Define Activities

• Product analysis

As part of the process to develop the scope statement for the project you are leading, you specify the deliverables for the project, include the requirements under which the deliverables will be accepted, and explicitly state what is out of project scope. What should you do next?

• Obtain approval of the project scope statement

• Include the acceptance criteria in the scope statement

• Determine who decides the project is successful

• Describe product scope in the scope statement

You are planning a project to construct a luxury condominium complex that will include jacuzzi tubs among its numerous features. Due to technical constraints, it has been decided to eliminate the jacuzzi tubs from the final project requirements. You document the jacuzzi tubs as an explicit scope exclusion in the project scope statement as well as update the requirements documentation to reflect this change. What should you do next?

• Reflect the scope exclusion in the requirements traceability matrix

• Document the status of the change in the change log

• Record the elimination of the jacuzzi tubs as an issue in the issue log

• Capture the exclusion of the jacuzzi tubs in the exclusion register

You are managing the development of a new smartphone in an extremely competitive market. You are planning the must-have features of the smartphone in detail so that work can begin and the product can be released to the market as early as possible. The future features are unknown at the moment and will depend on what the competitors release. You will plan these features in greater detail later on. As you and your team create the work breakdown structure (WBS), what will you use to indicate the future features?

• Control accounts

• Rolling wave planning

• Work packages

• Planning packages

You are part of the project team designing a new type of subway car. You have completed the last work package for the braking system; however, you are not sure what the acceptance criteria are for this particular work package. Where can you find that information?

• The project management plan

• The project scope statement

• The requirements documentation

• The WBS dictionary

A project manager for a software development project has collected the work performance data and used the requirements documentation and requirements traceability matrix to generate the work performance information regarding variances in the project work compared to the baseline. What process is the project manager performing?

• Validate Scope

• Control Scope

• Manage Quality

• Direct and Manage Project Work

A project manager is meeting with Sally, the program manager, to review the decomposed deliverables for a new product. Sally reviews the work breakdown structure and requests it to be arranged in the order the work should be performed. Is Sally correct saying that the work breakdown structure should be ordered according to how the work will be performed?

• Sally is wrong. Work is decomposed and sequenced in the Define Activities process.

• Sally is correct. Since she has superiority, the WBS should be ordered the way she wants it to be done

• Sally is wrong. The chronological order of tasks is defined in the Sequence Activities process

• Sally is correct. When decomposing the work, the order of tasks must be considered