Process Definition

The Control Scope Process involves monitoring the projects status, and making and managing baseline changes as needed.  Through the use of variance analysis, the project is monitored for signs of creep and slippage.  The key benefit to this process is that the project scope is monitored and managed throughout the entire project, and not just for a moment here or there. 

Process Assessment

The importance of this process is that it maintains focus on the project objective and plan.  The importance of this focus is that it is possible to make changes that are not needed and miss changes that are required.     

Figure 39. Control Scope: Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs. Reprinted from "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 5th Edition" by Project Management Institute, 2013, p. 136. Copyright 2013 by Project Management Institute, Inc. Reprinted without permission.

Artifacts

1.  Work Performance Data (Input):  This PMGT 501 individual assignment requires us to calculate completion percentage and cost at specified project period intervals.   These calculations provide an understanding of schedule and cost performance.

2.  Variance Analysis (Tools & Techniques): This PMGT 614 assignment generated a variance report in which cost and schedule variances were calculated to determine project performance.  Based on variance, a change request was created to visit an over budget condition noted.

3.  Control Scope (Tools & Techniques):  This PMGT 612 Fukushima Daichi Group Project visits the Nuclear Disaster from many project view points.  Among these points is how controlling scope could have impacted an international failed project.