The Answer to “What are we doing?”

At least on projects, it’s “scope”. And it’s what we in the project management biz call a “project objective”.

The other “project objectives” are “schedule”, “budget” (of resources), and “quality”. These answer the questions “When will that, the scope, be done?”, “How many, what type, and at what cost are the resources do we think we’ll need to complete the scope?”, and “To what standards or expectations will the scope be produced considering our time and resource constraints?”.

Finally, scope can be depicted graphically for the project team and stakeholders and customers as a Work Breakdown Structure, or “WBS”, if we’re planning and delivering the project in a “predictive” plan-driven manner, or as a Product Back Log (“PBL”), if we’re planning and delivering the project in an agile manner; i.e., a customer-driven manner.

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