Question

what is a Project scope?

Answer 1

Project scope is a part of project planning which determines and documents the detailed list of specific project goals, tasks, and deadlines. This document so prepared is known as scope statement stating the boundaries, duties and responsibilities and the procedure to verify and approve the completed work.

Project scope helps in maintaining the focus on the task. Project scope is not same as project's charter. Charter only documents project's existence.

Some major importance of project scope are:

• Easy to understand by the stakeholders.
• Appropriate budgets, tasks and scheduled work is much easier to follow.
• Managing changes during the project in progress is easy.