Scope Management Presentation

Week 5 Assignment

Create a Scope Management Presentation

Overview and Rationale

For this assignment, you will create a comprehensive Project Scope Management presentation to present to senior management [such as a project sponsor or an organization’s project governance group] for review and approval.

Program and Course Outcomes

The following course learning objectives are addressed through this assignment:

• Assess how project Scope Management impacts and integrates with other project planning deliverables

Presentation Instructions and Essential Components

• Create and (virtually) present an overview of the project’s proposed scope for your chosen case study. Assume the presentation’s audience is the project’s Project Governance Steering Committee or project sponsor.

• Create your presentation using MS PowerPoint, with no more than 10 slides that include the following required elements:

1. A one-slide Executive Summary briefly introducing the project and highlighting the specific scope management processes, tools and techniques used to develop the project scope.

2. A summary of the project’s process for collecting requirements, including the tools used to collect requirements.

3. An outline of all the necessary elements of the project's Scope Statement. The objective: present the Scope Statement content to the project sponsor for review and approval.

4. Include and briefly discuss key features of the WBS for your project. Note: the WBS can be summarized; it must also be legible (please don’t paste the WBS into the presentation with less than 8-point font.)

5. Discuss how you plan to formally and effectively manage project scope changes to prevent project scope creep. (Hint: an outline of Project Scope Change Control process, customized to your specific project, would be expected)

6. At least one recommended scope tradeoff if the project goes over budget or schedule, for sponsor review and approval.

• NOTE: the presentation must have detailed speaker notes or spoken narrative. Lack of speaker notes and/or narration automatically reduces the assignment grade down to a B-.)

Assignment Format

Below are some key guidelines to follow. Think of this short list as a quality control checklist, along with the attached grading rubric.

• Presentation must be in Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format • Presentation must have either detailed speaker notes or a narration • Professional presentation formats are expected. Reminder, the presentation will be

graded mostly on content versus your ability to make wonderful presentation slides.

Please be sure to review the attached rubric. Along with these assignment instructions, the rubric will ensure you have a solid understanding of the assignment requirements and how the assignment will be graded.

Grading Rubric

Assessment Element Above Standards Meets Standards Approaching Standards Below Standards Not Evident

Presentation Content (50%)

Presentation provided a detailed overview of the Scope Management processes used. Superior effort. Demonstrates superior understanding of scope management and its application to project planning.

Presentation provided a detailed overview of the Scope Management processes used. Adequate effort. Demonstrates adequate understanding of scope management and its application to project planning.

Presentation provided a mostly detailed overview of the Scope Management processes used. Mostly adequate effort. Some improvements in content development are needed. Demonstrates mostly adequate understanding of scope management and its application to project planning.

Presentation provided an inadequate overview of the Scope Management processes used. Significant improvements in content development are needed. Demonstrates mostly inadequate understanding of scope management and its application to project planning.

Presentation content was insufficient.

Presentation Organization (20%)

Presentation was exceptionally well structured to provide audience with a clear overview of effective scope management analysis. Slides were correctly formatted. Presentation structure - content organization, presentation flow, readability and speaker notes/narration were superior.

Presentation was well structured to provide audience with a clear overview of effective scope management analysis. Slides were correctly formatted. Presentation structure - content organization, presentation flow, readability and speaker notes/narration were effective and adequate.

Presentation was mostly well structured to provide audience with a clear overview of effective scope management analysis. Slides were mostly correctly formatted. Presentation structure - content organization, presentation flow, readability and speaker notes/narration were mostly adequate.

Presentation was not well structured to provide audience with a clear overview of effective scope management analysis. Slides were not correctly formatted. Presentation structure - content organization, presentation flow, readability and speaker notes/narration were inadequate.

The submission fails to meet assignment standards.

Assessment

Element Above Standards Meets Standards Approaching Standards Below Standards Not Evident

Critical Thinking (20%)

Professional insights into depth and breadth of assignment - goes WELL beyond assignment requirements to define and explore effective scope management processes and lessons learned.

Professional insights into depth and breadth of assignment - showcases adequate assignment requirements to define and explore effective scope management processes and lessons learned.

Mostly effective insights into depth and breadth of assignment - showcases mostly adequate assignment requirements to define and explore effective scope management processes and lessons learned.

Depth and breadth of assignment - showcases inadequate assignment requirements to define and explore effective scope management processes and lessons learned.

Depth and breadth of assignment - showcases very poor understanding of assignment requirements to define and explore effective scope management processes and lessons learned.

Grammar & Clarity (10%)

All work grammatically correct with no misspellings or grammatical mistakes. Expresses ideas and opinions clearly and concisely in a manner appropriate to the assignment. Speaker notes / narration were clear.

All work grammatically correct with rare misspellings. Speaker notes / narration were clear.

Minimal errors in spelling, grammar, sentence structure and/or other writing conventions but the reader is able to understand what the writer meant. Speaker notes / narration were mostly clear.

Frequent errors in spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and/or other writing conventions that distract the reader. Speaker notes / narration were not clear.

Writing contains numerous errors in spelling, grammar, sentence structure, etc. that interfere with comprehension. The reader is unable to understand some of the intended meaning. Speaker notes / narration were not clear.