Program Scope Management Plan
When and how should program scope management plan be applied?
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What this template contains.
Purpose. Use this plan to define how programme scope will be developed, decomposed, accepted, controlled and communicated throughout the lifecycle. It establishes the process for producing the detailed programme scope statement and programme work breakdown structure, then managing changes without losing alignment with objectives and benefits. Application. Scope management must connect what the programme will deliver with the work required to deliver it. It should also distinguish product scope from programme scope
Use context
Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use this plan to define how programme scope will be developed, decomposed, accepted, controlled and communicated throughout the lifecycle. It establishes the process for producing the detailed programme scope statement and programme work breakdown structure, then managing changes without losing alignment with objectives and benefits.
Application
Scope management must connect what the programme will deliver with the work required to deliver it. It should also distinguish product scope from programme scope so that completion is assessed against the correct requirements and plans.
Completion discipline
Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions that support it. Retain approved versions and review the document whenever a material assumption, dependency, requirement or governance decision changes.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Document control
Program name, Program manager, Program sponsor, Actual start date
A. Purpose
Purpose
B. Product and program scope
Product scope and program scope
C. Scope stability
Expected stability of program scope
D. Scope statement process
Scope statement development process
E. Work breakdown structure
Program work breakdown structure development process
F. Scope change control
Program scope change-control process
G. Approvals
Program manager, Program sponsor, Program management office director, Governance Board chairperson
Protected resources
Included resource formats.
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