Going Beyond the Waterfall: Managing Scope Effectively Across the Project Life Cycle

Every year technology projects face hard decisions about how to mitigate risk and address challenges as teams work on creating useful solutions to deliver promised business value. Those decisions impact scope at every step and help to evolve it until the final product is delivered and implemented. Scope can longer be set in stone!

This book will help project teams understand how and when scope changes and evolves as a part of a living-development process by answering the ultimate question: “Are we doing the right things the right way?”

Going Beyond the Waterfall explains how to define scope at the outset of a project. It provides a solid model for predicting and managing solution scope across a project life cycle where the decisions and actions of every team member contribute to that evolutionary process. In addition, it identifies the impacts that key tasks and activities will have on scope and how each can be managed effectively to prevent unnecessary scope creep and reduce run-away projects.

Key Features

• Defines scope from program management to business case and requirements
• Identifies how scope evolves and what causes it to change
• Illustrates how stakeholder engagement, requirements, and project and enterprise architecture methodologies impact scope and management
• Demonstrates the implications of change management and implementation on scope throughout the development and roll-out processes
• Discusses the evolution of scope as a key process in the achievement of project objectives
• Explains the definition and management process of scope from concept to implementation

About the Authors

Barbara Davis is President of RQX Global Training & Consulting, LLC, an organization that provides technology management and profit management services for projects, resources, portfolios and IT services. She is a proven thought leader and expert in business analysis, project management, and various aspects of information technology management and business. Ms. Davis has been a champion of business analysis and technology standards and infrastructure for well over a decade, during which time she developed the first university accredited business analysis diploma program, as well as proprietary methodologies. She is also an international speaker and author of Managing Business Analysis Services: A Framework for Sustainable Projects and Corporate Success and Mastering Software Project Requirements: A Framework for Successful Planning, Development and Alignment.

Darren Radford is President and CEO of Aspire, a management consulting firm, located in Vancouver, Canada, that offers a delivery focused and outcome-based solution capability to effect the right changes at the right time in the right way. Mr. Radford is a respected thought leader in the areas of business and IT strategy; portfolio, program, and project management; product delivery; stakeholder engagement; risk and quality; business analysis; and business transformation. His reputation was built on identifying innovative approaches to solving growth, productivity, and cost management challenges by transforming and evolving firms into high functioning organizations capable of sustainable success. Mr. Radford has over sixteen years of business and IT-enabled transformation experience in the commercial and government sectors.