Scope creep rarely shows up all at once, it arrives one "small addition" at a time, until the budget, timeline, and resources originally agreed on no longer match what the project is actually delivering. The only real defence against it is a scope that was clearly defined and broken down into a structure everyone can check work against.

This course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy gives participants the skills to manage project scope and build a proper work breakdown structure, the tool that lets a project team pin down exactly what has to be done, set priorities, assign tasks to individuals, and manage changes quickly when they come up.

Who Should Attend

• Members of project management offices and deputy project managers.
• Project owners, project managers, and project supervisors.
• Entrepreneurs launching or overseeing their own projects.

What Participants Will Be Able to Do Afterwards

• Apply the processes and technical methods used to manage project scope successfully, including work breakdown structures.
• Carry out the full set of procedures involved in planning, managing, and monitoring scope.
• Identify the factors that affect how scope is worked with on a project, and follow the guidelines used to manage it.

Module 1: Defining What "Scope" Means for This Project

• The concept of a project and its scope, and the processes that make up scope management.
• How scope fits into the wider project management plan, and the models and standards used to structure it.

Module 2: Planning and Identifying Scope

• The concept and importance of scope planning, and its typical inputs, tools, and outputs.
• The concept and importance of scope identification, and its typical inputs, tools, and outputs.

Module 3: Building the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• The concept and importance of a work breakdown structure, and the tools, inputs, and outputs used to build one.
• The different breakdown structures used across knowledge and application areas: organisational, risk, and resource breakdown structures, plus the bill of materials.
• The scale layout of a project and the factors that shape it.

Module 4: Validating and Controlling Scope

• The concept and importance of scope validation, and its inputs, tools, and outputs.
• The concept and importance of scope control, and its inputs, tools, and outputs.