Module 2 : Project Integration and Scope Management

Module 2 : Project Integration and Scope Management (Created by Dr A Cabello 2020)

Institution: Platform Site: ENGG951 (S221) Engineering Project Management

Book: Module 2 : Project Integration and Scope Management (Created by Dr A Cabello 2020)

Printed by: Dixitkumar Pravinbhai Patel Date: Thursday, 9 September 2021, 5:21 PM https://moodle.uowplatform.edu.au/

Table of contents

1. Project Categorisation and Prioritisation (Activity 1) 1.1. Strategic Alignment 1.2. Financial Models for Prioritisation (Activity 2) 1.3. Multi Criteria Models for Prioritisation

2. Introduction to Project Integration and Scope Management

3. Project Integration Management 3.1. Project Initiation & Developing a Project Charter (Activity 3) 3.2. Developing the Project Management Plan 3.3. Directing and Managing the Project Execution Phase 3.4. Monitoring and Controlling Project Work 3.5. Integrated Change Control 3.6. Close Project Phase

4. Project Scope Management 4.1. Defining Project Scope 4.2. Collecting requirements 4.3. Create the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 4.4. Comprehensive Project Scope Statement (Activity 6) 4.5. Verifying Project Scope (Activity 7) 4.6. Controlling Project Scope

5. References

6. Glossary 6.1. Project Sponsor 6.2. Project management office (PMO) 6.3. Project configuration Management 6.4. Note Managing the Execution Phase 6.5. Note Monitoring and Controlling Project Work 6.6. Contract 6.7. Enterprise environmental factors 6.8. A general list of items on a project charter 6.9. Baselines 6.10. Organisational process assets 6.11. Project management information systems (PMIS) 6.12. Lessons learned 6.13. Product Scope 6.14. Project Scope 6.15. Importance of product definition 6.16. Scope Creep 6.17. Gold Plating 6.18. Project Constraints 6.19. Reports of blunders with scope definition 6.20. Quality function deployment (QFD) 6.21. An organisational unit

1. Project Categorisation and Prioritisation (Activity 1)

Prior to the initiation of a project an organisation will need to decide which projects it will choose to undertake. So a consideration of project categorisation and selection will be included in this module. 

In general terms it can be said that projects can be categorised as:

Compliance Projects – which are those necessary to meet legal compliance requirements and therefore necessary to enable operation or emergency projects required to enable continuation of operation. 

Operational Projects – are those designed to reduce costs, improve efficiency or improve performance. So whilst they are needed to support current operations.

Strategic Projects – are those designed to support the organisations long term vision or evolve their current mission.

Compliance projects by their nature must be done as a first priority above all other projects – the are “Must Do” projects, whilst operational and strategic projects have a degree of discretion regarding their implementation.

For any substantial project, many organisation’s will require that a business case be established for a project, to determine whether or not a project should proceed past the initial conceptual stage. Some considerations and tools that might be used to justify the pursuit of a project are contained in the subsections which follow.

Watch the following video extract from a past lecture in which the strategic nature of projects and their categorisation is discussed.

Module 2 Lecture Video – Project Categorisation & Prioritisation

 Activity 1

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Q1. The portfolio of projects is typically represented by compliance, strategic, and operations projects. What impact can this classification have on project selection?

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Q2. You manage a hotel resort located on the Queensland Gold Coast hinterland. You are shifting the focus of your resort from a traditional fun-in-the- sun destination to eco-tourism. (Eco-tourism focuses on environmental awareness and education.) How would you classify the following projects in terms of compliance, strategic, and operational?

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 Projects Classification