What To Do When Scope Change Is Requested

When scope changes are requested, you should investigate all areas of the project to determine what the changes will impact. Your project team should perform estimates of the impact and of the amount of time needed to make the changes.

The key activity that the closed project or phase process is concerned with is gathering project records and disseminating information to formalize acceptance of the product, service, or result, as well as to perform project closure. You should review the project documents to make sure that they are up-to-date. For example, perhaps some scope change requests were implemented that changed some characteristics of the final product. The project information that is collected during this process should reflect the characteristics and specifications of the final product.

I am sure that we can remember (some of us with trepidation) Hopefully if you manage your project well, you will not need to sweat bullets. At the same time, you do need to report on the project's performance. Just as in school our performance was compared to the standard, the same holds true for a project.

what it felt like when at the end of the school term, we had to present our parents with our report cards. We always knew that the reckoning day would come and that they would find out what we were doing (or not doing), but when the day finally arrived, there was a whole lot of sweating bullets.