PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT PLAN TEMPLATE

Project title / Code / Date / File name
Project Sponsor / Project Manager / Project client

Prepared by

Document owner(s) / Project/organisation role

Project charter version control

Version / Date / Author / Change description
[Replace this text with the name of the document owner.] / Document created
[Replace this text with the name of the change owner.] / [Replace this text with a list of changes for this owner on this date and version.]
  • [Change 1]
  • [Change 2]
  • [Change n]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1SCOPE MANAGEMENT PLAN PURPOSE

2PROJECT OVERVIEW

3PROJECT SCOPE STATEMENT

3.1Goals and objectives

3.2Organisational impacts

3.3Project deliverables

3.4Deliverables Out of Scope

3.5Project Estimated Costs and Duration

4PROJECT CONDITIONS

4.1Project assumptions

4.2High-level project risks

4.3Project constraints

5Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)

6Verifying completion of project deliverables

7Managing requests for changes to project scope

8APPROVALS

1PROBLEM/ BACKGROUND

[Replace this text with your own statement of the scope management plan purpose.]

2SCOPE MANAGEMENT PLAN PURPOSE

[Replace this text with your own statement of the scope management plan purpose.]

3PROJECT OVERVIEW

[Replace this text with the rationale and business justification for undertaking this project.]

4PROJECT SCOPE STATEMENT

4.1Goals and Outcomes

Goals / Outcomes
[Replace this text with project goals. For example: The project will provide an improved system for managing product returns.] / [Replace this text with outcomes for each goal. For example:
  1. Develop a system by June that tracks an end-to-end process for 100% of product returns.
  2. Integrate new system with Sales in order to improve customer satisfaction 40% by year end.]

4.2Organisational Impacts

[Impacts to organisations business activities, capability and or processes.]

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2.
3.
4.
5.

4.3Organisational benefits

[Benefits that will be measured throughout and or after the project.]

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

4.4Project deliverables

Milestone / Deliverable
  1. [Milestone description]
/
  • [Deliverable 1—description]
  • [Deliverable 2—description]
  • [Deliverable 3—description]

  1. [Milestone description]
/
  • [Deliverable 1—description]
  • [Deliverable 2—description]
  • [Deliverable 3—description]

  1. [Milestone description]
/
  • [Deliverable 1—description]
  • [Deliverable 2—description]
  • [Deliverable 3—description]

4.5Exclusions

[Replace this text with a description of key logical areas not considered part of the boundaries of this project. Examples of these out-of-scope deliverables may include data, processes, tasks, applications, or business management.]

4.6Project estimated duration

Project milestone / Date estimate / Deliverable(s) included / Confidence level
[Milestone 1] / [mm/dd/yy] / [Deliverable 1]
[Deliverable 2] / [High/Medium/Low]
[Milestone 2] / [mm/dd/yy] / [Deliverable 1]
[Deliverable 2] / [High/Medium/Low]

4.7Project estimated cost

Project critical tasks / Cost estimate / Indicative budget
[Critical task/ deliverable 1] / [$] / [Information supporting the budget]
[Critical task/ deliverable 2] / [$] / [Information supporting the budget]
Total estimated cost

5PROJECT CONDITIONS

5.1Project assumptions

  • [Assumption 1]
  • [Assumption 2]
  • [Assumption 3]

5.2High-level project risks

# / Risk area / Likelihood / Risk owner / Project impact-mitigation plan
1 / [Project risk] / [High/
Medium/
Low] / [Replace this text with a description of the mitigation plan.]
2 / [Project risk] / [High/
Medium/
Low] / [Replace this text with a description of the mitigation plan.]

5.3Project constraints

  • Time – [Replace this text with a description of the details for each key constraint.]
  • Costs – [Replace this text with a description of the details for each key constraint.]
  • Specifications – [Replace this text with a description of the details for each key constraint.]
  • Resources – [Replace this text with a description of the details for each key constraint.]

6Creating the work breakdown structure (WBS)

[Replace this text with a description of how the work of the project will be structured and what approach will be used to identify work packages/activities and tasks.

[Attach the WBS for this project as an appendix]

7Verifying completion of project deliverables

[Replace this text with a description of how the project deliverables will be verified as complete. Please include roles and responsibilities for verifying completion of project deliverables.]

8Managing requests for changes to project scope

All change requests, approvals and actions must be completed in accordance with the GSE procedure as stated in the Change Management Plan Template located on the GSE Intranet.

9APPROVALS

Prepared by:
Project manager
Approved by:
Project sponsor
Executive sponsor
Client sponsor

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