International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 8

Project scope management: A pivotal tool for project's success

  • Author:
  • Arupjyoti Nath, Mohammed Mukit Momin
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 279 to 288

*Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (currently) and NIT Silchar, Silchar, India (2008–2012)

**Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland (currently) and NIT Srinagar, Srinagar, India (2007–2011)

Online published on 21 August, 2014.

Abstract

This paper presents the importance of Scope Management in relation to the overall success of a project. It also talks about the whole scope management process and all the phases involved in it: initiation, planning, scope definition, verification and then control. An efficacious scope management of a project certifies the successful management of other strategic project management capacities including time, cost and quality. Its main focus is on the methodologies and techniques applied for a successful management of the project's scope. It came out to be that the features and methodologies employed in a project are the project's scope and their deliverance on time ensures the project's success.

Keywords

Project management, project scope management, WBS (work breakdown structure), project success and strategy, scope creep, project success factors