A) Control Gold Plating

B)  Provide task definitions

C)  Verify the Scope of the project

D)  Define the work of the project

 

Terminology of the Day

 Scope Planning

 Determining documentation needs associated with future project decisions, including success standards (criteria) for the entire project as well as individual phases; a progressively elaborated process

Answer and Explanation to Yesterday's Question

The Project Manager is in the process of meeting with business area owners who are impacted by his new business process analysis project. He is attempting to find out what their needs are for the project as well as any constraints and assumptions that they might be aware of that would impact his planning attempts either positively or negatively. At the same time, the Project Manager is beginning to set expectations for the project so that their expectations are not out of line with the planning. The best description of this is what?

A)  Stakeholder management (Correct)

B)  Change Control Board

C)  Team member analysis

D)  Stakeholder identification

 Explanation: Stakeholder management involves determining the needs and expectations of the Stakeholders and management of those needs and expectations. Stakeholder identification involves determining the impacted Stakeholders. The other two answers are noise.

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