The standard for project management

Figure 5-2. Plan Scope Management: Inputs, Tools & Techniques, and Outputs

Figure 5-3. Plan Scope Management: Data Flow Diagram

Tools & Techniques

Inputs

Outputs

Plan Scope Management

.1  Expert judgment

.2  Data analysis

• 

Alternatives analysis

.3 Meetings

.1  Project charter

.2  Project management plan

• 

Quality management plan

• 

Project life cycle description

• 

Development approach

.3  Enterprise environmental    

 factors

.4  Organizational process assets

.1  Scope management plan

.2  Requirements management  

 plan

• Project

   charter

5.1

Plan Scope

Management

Enterprise/

Organization

4.1

Develop Project

Charter

• Scope management plan

• 

R

equirements 

management plan

• Project charter

• 

Q

uality management plan

• Project life cycle description

• Development approach

• Enterprise environmental factors

• 

O

rganizational process assets

Project

Management

Plan

Project

Management

Plan

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The scope management plan is a component of the project or program management plan that describes how the 

scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and validated. The development of the scope management plan 

and the detailing of the project scope begin with the analysis of information contained in the project charter (Section 

4.1.3.1), the latest approved subsidiary plans of the project management plan (Section 4.2.3.1), historical information 

contained in the organizational process assets (Section 2.3), and any other relevant enterprise environmental factors 

(Section 2.2).

5.1.1 PLAN SCOPE MANAGEMENT: INPUTS

5.1.1.1 PROJECT CHARTER

Described in Section 4.1.3.1. The project charter documents the project purpose, high-level project description, 

assumptions, constraints, and high-level requirements that the project is intended to satisfy.

5.1.1.2 PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN

Described in Section 4.2.3.1. Project management plan components include but are not limited to:

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