Developing a scope and requirements management plan
In Chapter 2, Introduction to Project Management, you reviewed the beginnings of what an integrated, project management plan does and why it is so important. You also learned that other than baselines for tracking performance, there are subsidiary management plans that are the how-to guides for the knowledge areas they represent. The scope management plan and the requirements management plan are the subsidiary plans for the scope of work. The scope of work in a predictive project is the major constraint. The collection of requirements will set the stage for planning your budget, schedule, quality, resources, and risk assessments. In a predictive project, the scope of work is typically fixed or well known in advance, meaning the outcome is already known. What is not known at this point in the project is how long the project will take, how much it will cost in the end, and what risk events could derail the efforts. Those items are variable...