Project Scope and Management Plan for PROJ6002 Module 2

This report, prepared for the PROJ6002 Project Planning and Budgeting module, focuses on project scope and management, specifically addressing the challenges of scope creep and its impact on project timelines, resources, and stakeholder satisfaction. The report examines the consequences of altering agreed-upon project requirements, including potential delays, increased costs, and the risk of project failure. It explores strategies for a project manager to communicate scope changes to stakeholders, manage resources, and mitigate scope creep through proactive communication and negotiation. The assignment incorporates feedback from a classmate, highlighting real-world examples of project failure due to scope changes and emphasizing the importance of clear requirements and stakeholder alignment. The report references key project management literature to support its analysis and recommendations. It also discusses the impact of scope changes on project success, including time management, resource allocation, and stakeholder engagement. This report is a valuable resource for students studying project management and provides practical insights into managing project scope effectively.

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PROJECT SCOPE AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN
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Part A
Adding various features, altering the existing requirements and changing the project goals
that have already been agreed upon might come in as well as disrupt the schedule of the entire
project (Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017). This is because the change in requirements or demands
require various additional resources, cost and time that were not accounted for during the
initiation of the project. change in project scope have high chances of causing delays in
delivering a specific task, missed milestones, rise in the planed cost, negative impact in the
quality hence occurring customer dissatisfaction (Shirazi, Kazemipoor & Tavakkoli-
Moghaddam, 2017). The scope change would result in late execution of certain activities and
hence it would also result in the late execution of the overall project.
The project manager would be able to communicate these variances regarding the scope
creep and its impact on the project schedule through a formal meeting, this meeting would be
held between the stakeholders and the project manager. The changes in the scope of project
would be informed to the stakeholders along with the impacts on the schedule of the entire
project, they would also be informed regarding cases where the deadlines of certain activities
would not be met and milestones will be missed (Lientz & Rea, 2016). The new resources that
have been added in the list must be informed to them along with the change in budget. The
project manger can keep continuous contact with the stakeholders regarding new strategies that
can be used in order to carry out the project and which would avoid scope creep.
Feedback
According to my fellow classmates, the changes in project scope can be cause due to
various factors that include lack of sufficient clarity or data on the requirements, unavailability of
inappropriate stakeholders, various conflicting opinions and ideas and many more. He has also

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discusses regarding the concept of project failure due to changes in project scope, he has
provided with an example where he had been working for a specific project during his training
period and the changes in scope of the project had resulted in failure of the entire project. They
were responsible for developing a website; it had certain requirements and stakeholders in the
beginning but as the project started the requirements of stakeholders changed and there were
some additional resources that were required. These additional resources were difficult to get
hold of because they were previously not mentioned, these factors had resulted in the failure of
the project, in this case I think the project manager and stakeholders must have discussed and
agreed upon a specific scope that would include some of the new requirements as well, the
unavailability of resources must have been communicated to the stakeholders which might have
convinced them in not changing the scope, this way the project could have been completed and
there would have been less chances of project failure. The project manager could have utilized
various strategies and negotiated with the stakeholders regarding the demands of the project.

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References
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Lientz, B., & Rea, K. (2016). Breakthrough technology project management. Routledge.
Shirazi, F., Kazemipoor, H., & Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R. (2017). Fuzzy decision analysis for
project scope change management. Decision Science Letters, 6(4), 395-406.