What is a scope management plan?

• Includes: ◦ How project scope will be defined, developed, integrated, monitored, controlled and verified ◦ How the expected stability of project scope will be assessed (i.e., determining the probability for its change) ◦ Process for preparing a detailed project scope statement ◦ Process which enables creation of WBS ◦ Process which clearly states how WBS will be maintained and approved ◦ Process which states how formal acceptance of the project deliverables is obtained ◦ Process to control how change requests to the detailed project scope statement will be processed 

• May be formal or informal, highly detailed or broadly framed, based on the needs of the project 

• Subsidiary plan of the project management plan