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You are now ready to start working on the Scope of your project. The Scope of a project answers the questions "What" will you actually do, and "Where" will you do it. Also, it begins to cover "How" you will do your project by collecting Stakeholder Expectations. There are logical steps toward managing the Scope of your project, and we will dig into those steps on this page. First a short step back. Your Project Charter should contain a Statement of Work (SOW). This is a narra

Do you manage a few large projects? Do you manage several smaller projects? What is the best approach for these 2 scenarios? MANAGING LARGE PROJECTS In Planning Scope, Step 3, we saw how a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is used to take a complex deliverable and decompose it into Work Packages and further into Activities for easier management. In planning Time, we saw how a Time plan begins with decomposing the WBS work packages into Activities. The Time plan is a completed C