Title: Project Scope Management : A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Product, Construction, IT and Enterprise Projects Author: Jamal Moustafaev ISBN: 1482259486 / 9781482259483 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 366 Publisher: Auerbach Year: 2015 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
Incomplete or missed requirements, omissions, ambiguous product features, lack of user involvement, unrealistic customer expectations, and the proverbial scope creep can result in cost overruns, missed deadlines, poor product quality, and can very well ruin a project. Project Scope Management: A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Product, Construction, IT and Enterprise Projects describes how to elicit, document, and manage requirements to control project scope creep. It also explains how to manage project stakeholders to minimize the risk of an ever-growing list of user requirements.
The book begins by discussing how to collect project requirements and define the project scope. Next, it considers the creation of work breakdown structures and examines the verification and control of the scope. Most of the book is dedicated to explaining how to collect requirements and how to define product and project scope inasmuch as they represent the bulk of the project scope management work undertaken on any project regardless of the industry or the nature of the work involved.
The book maintains a focus on practical and sensible tools and techniques rather than academic theories. It examines five different projects and traces their development from a project scope management perspective—from project initiation to the end of the execution and control phases. The types of projects considered include CRM system implementation, mobile number portability, port upgrade, energy-efficient house design, and airport check-in kiosk software.
After reading this book, you will learn how to create project charters, high-level scope, detailed requirements specifications, requirements management plans, traceability matrices, and a work breakdown structure for the projects covered.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Scope Management : Who? What? Why? Chapter 2 : History of Scope Management Chapter 3 : Writing Project Charters Chapter 4 : Requirements, Customers, Users Chapter 5 : High-Level Scope Elicitation Chapter 6 : Detailed Requirements Elicitation Chapter 7 : Documenting Requirements : Information Technology and Software Development Projects Chapter 8 : Documenting Requirements : Engineering and Product Development Projects Chapter 9 : Documenting Requirements : Multidisciplinary Projects Chapter 10 : Creating the Requirements Management Plan and Requirements Traceability Matrix Chapter 11 : Final Product Design Chapter 12 : Creating Work Breakdown Structures and WBS Dictionaries Chapter 13 : Troubleshooting Scope Problems Chapter 14 : Scope Verification Chapter 15 : Controlling Project Scope Chapter 16 : References and Additional Reading