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Project Scope Management - Coggle Diagram
Project Scope Management
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Collecting Requirements
For some IT projects, it is helpful to divide requirements development into categories called elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation
It is important to use an iterative approach to defining requirements since they are often unclear early in a project
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What Went Right?
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories uses Accept software, a product planning and innovation management application and winner of the Excellence in Product Management Award from 2006–2008
Accept helps them instill a consistent, repeatable, and predictable process for new product definition and development
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Media Snapshot
Many people enjoy watching television shows like Trading Spaces, where participants have two days and $1,000 to update a room in their neighbor’s house. Since the time and cost are set, it’s the scope that has the most flexibility
Although most homeowners are very happy with work done on the show, some are obviously disappointed. Part of agreeing to be on the show includes signing a release statement acknowledging that you will accept whatever work has been done
Too bad you can’t get sponsors for most projects to sign a similar release form. It would make project scope management much easier!
What Went Wrong?
Scope creep and an overemphasis on technology for technology’s sake resulted in the bankruptcy of a large pharmaceutical firm, Texas-based FoxMeyer Drug
In 2001, McDonald’s fast-food chain initiated a project to create an intranet that would connect its headquarters with all of its restaurants to provide detailed operational information in real time. After spending $170 million on consultants and initial implementation planning, McDonald’s realized that the project was too much to handle and terminated it
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