Training Course in Defining and Controlling Project Scope Through Work Breakdown
1Summary
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.
2Objectives and target group
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.
3Course Content
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.