Eric Morkovich, PMP | Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices - Part 19

Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Eric Morkovich, PMP

Eric Morkovich, PMP

Project Manager · 10+ years in software delivery
MyMG Contributing Expert since 2011PMP-certified since 2014

Eric Morkovich is a project manager with more than ten years of experience in the software industry. He helps product companies review and fix the way they define, build, and roll out software, from the first business case to the day a system goes live.

His work sits where plans meet reality: schedules that have to survive vendor delays, appraisals that have to convince a sponsor, and procurement decisions that lock a project in for years. On MyManagementGuide he writes about project management fundamentals and the stories behind them.

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Project initiation stage – Project Initiation Document (PID). Duties of project owner and project team

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Project initiation stage – Project Initiation Document (PID). Duties of project owner and project team

The project initiation is the first project stage which usually entails generation of concept behind a new project (project conceptualization). The primary purpose of the project initiation stage is to establish the scope of project, discover its boundaries and specify what the project should accomplish.

how to set project scope

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How to State Scope for a Project?

Stating the scope of a project is probably the most important step of the planning process within the project life cycle. If a project manager doesn’t know for sure what deliverables are being produced, what technical requirements are, and what the boundaries are, he/she has no chance for success, even having excellent management skills. If the task to make scope statement wasn’t done, managing the scope is almost impossible.