August 9th, 2009
The 4th edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide explains that the term progressive elaboration indicates a project management technique in which a plan for a project is continuously and constantly modified for improvement. As more detailed knowledge and communication become available the project management leader and team take more involved measures to more accurately complete the project. As an influx of improved information is delivered in a series of successive iterations, progressive elaboration is a fundamentally important step in refining the project plan.
A Project Scope Statement is initiated in the project planning stage and it provides information regarding the project scope and major deliverables. The project scope management plan describes how the scope will be controlled and how changes to the scope will be managed. Scope Creep refers to obstacles and challenges, which present as barriers to completion of the project. If scope creep barriers are not addressed and regulated, the results are detrimental to the project, quality, deadline, resources and customer approval. Variance analysis can measure whether a project is on course through using information from project performance reports. Consequently, problems or changes that impact the project scope, need to be investigated and approved or the project team is best served by reverting back to the original project plan.
Tags: progressive elaboration, project management, project scope management plan, scope creep, variance analysis
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