MGT 172 Chapter 4: Chatper 4_ Defining the Project

• School: UCSD
• Department: Rady School of Management
• Course: MGT 172
• Professor: Kathleen Hedges

Document Summary

Scope should be developed under project manager, customer, and other significant stakeholders. Limits and exclusions: failure to do this can lead to false expectations. Project charter: document that authorizes project manager to initiate and lead the project. Scope creep: tendency for project scope to expand over time by changing requirements, specifications, and priorities. Project manager manages trade-offs among time, cost, and performance. The project must meet the completion date, specifications and scope of the project, or budget. Go over priority matrix for a project before the project begins. 4. 3 step 3: creating the work breakdown structure. Work breakdown structure (wbs): helps to assure project managers that all products and work elements are identifies, to integrate project with current org, to establish a basis for control. Wbs defines all the elements of the project in a hierarchical framework and establishes their relationships to the project end item(s) Work package: lowest level of the wbs.