Construction Project Scope Management

Description

Construction project scope management is a professional-level training course designed to equip construction professionals with the knowledge and practical skills required to define, develop, control, validate, and manage project scope throughout the construction project life cycle. The training course focuses on translating client requirements into clearly defined project deliverables, developing the work breakdown structure, establishing scope baselines, managing changes, preventing scope creep, and coordinating scope with cost, time, quality, procurement, contracts, and risk. This training course presents the objectives, scope and applications of construction project scope management manual in detail. It discusses policies, principles and considerations for construction project scope management. It, furthermore, covers the main principles of construction project scope management manual, considerations and construction project scope, construction project scope management manual functions and outcomes along the five generic project management process groups in detail. In this training course, construction project scope management manual high level process map; the modified five construction project management specific process groups under the business-project-product management chain or linkage are described. In this professional training course, practical applications, case studies and project-based scenarios are included. Topics covered include the following:

• Learning objectives
• Document information
• Primary objective of construction project scope management
• Policies, principles and considerations
• Construction project scope management overview
• Construction project scope management high level process map
• Process groups
• Manual adjustment, amendment and revision

Outcomes

Upon the completion of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the construction project scope management processes
• Define major roles of the project manager and the project team to minimize duplication of efforts and manage and control construction project services and works integratively
• Define and authorize the construction project scope management documents to ensure harmonized approach to construction project scope management and its continuous improvement
• Define the scope of services and works of construction projects to satisfy the 100% rule (i.e., zero defects in schedule of requirements)
• Prevent scope changes using design and constructability reviews when construction project scope authorization is made
• Mitigate unnecessary scope changes using value engineering or management after contract conclusion when construction project scope validation is conducted (i.e., scope changes within thresholds)
• Mitigate unnecessary scope and subsequently time and cost changes/creeps using construction project scope control
• Handle only necessary scope changes and avoid scope creeps

Target audience

The target audience for this training course includes construction project managers, civil engineers, architects, quantity surveyors, contract administrators, planning engineers, project control engineers, consultants, contractors, developers, procurement professionals, and client representatives.