2-3-1 Purpose
The purpose for this document is to analyze the product that is the justification for this project. This document is a transition between the Product Description and the Work Breakdown Structure. The Product Description will evolve, through progressive elaboration toward a detailed description useful to the end user of the product. The Work Breakdown Structure will evolve into the tasks on the project schedule.

The purpose for this project is to demonstrate the use of the PMI methodology through a comprehensive set of project documents.

2-3-2 Copyright
Summer 2004, Irvine, California, USA, copyright by Robert E. Perrine, PMP. Offered as is, with no warranty regarding the accuracy or suitability of this material. Copyright reserved. You are, however free to copy and distribute these documents with the following restrictions.

• You may not charge for use or distribution of this material.
• Your usage of this material is conditioned upon your compliance with the PMI Code of Ethics.
• All distributions must be made with the intent to further the collected wisdom of humanity.
• You may not remove my name or my copyright notices from these documents.

2-3-3 Table of Contents
Recursion Project
2 Scope
2-3 Scope Statement
2-3-1 Purpose
2-3-2 Copyright
2-3-3 Table of Contents
2-3-4 Product Description
2-3-5 Major Components
2-3-6 Deliverables
2-3-7 Exclusions
2-3-8 Revision History and Authorization to Proceed

2-3-4 Product Description
The product to be built during the course of this project is a set of documents. It is expected that there will be about thirty total documents, but that number will be refined during the course of this project. These documents must be made available through an internet portal. A more comprehensive description of the product is included in document “Recursion 002 Product Description”.

2-3-5 Major Components
The major components of this product are the organized around the nine PMBOK 2000 knowledge areas.

• Communication
• Scope
• Time
• Human Resources
• Cost
• Quality
• Procurement
• Risk
• Integration

2-3-6 Deliverables
Note that the following list contains more than the estimated thirty documents. It is anticipated that several of these documents will be merged into one. For now, the planning estimate will remain at 30.

Methodology

Knowledge Area	Process	Document	Complexity
None	Methodology	Guidelines	Very High

Knowledge Areas

Knowledge Area	Process	Document	Complexity
Integration	Project Plan Development	Project Plan	Very High
Scope	Initiation	Product Description	Moderate
Scope	Initiation	Project Charter	Moderate
Scope	Scope Planning	Scope Statement	Moderate
Scope	Scope Planning	Scope Management Plan	Moderate
Scope	Scope Definition	Work Breakdown Structure	Moderate
Scope	Scope Definition	WBS Dictionary	Moderate
Scope	Scope Verification	Formal Acceptance	Low
Time	Activity Definition	Activity Lists	Low
Time	Activity Sequencing	Project Network Diagram	Low
Time	Activity Duration Estimating	Activity Duration Estimates	Moderate
Time	Schedule Development	Project Schedule	Moderate
Time	Schedule Development	Schedule Management Plan	Low
Cost	Resource Planning	Resource Requirements	Moderate
Cost	Cost Estimating	Cost Estimates	Moderate
Cost	Cost Estimating	Cost Management Plan	Low
Cost	Cost Budgeting	Cost Baseline	High
Cost	Cost Control	Estimate at Completion	Moderate
Quality	Quality Planning	Checklists	High
Quality	Quality Planning	Quality Management Plan	Low
Quality	Quality Planning	Operational Definitions	Moderate
Human Resources	Organizational Planning	Roles & Responsibility Assignments	Moderate
Human Resources	Organizational Planning	Staffing Management Plan	Low
Human Resources	Organizational Planning	Organization Chart	Low
Human Resources	Staff Acquisition	Project Team Directory	Low
Communications	Communications Planning	Communications Management Plan	Low
Communications	Information Distribution	Project Reports	Low
Communications	Information Distribution	Project Presentations	Low
Communications	Performance Reporting	Performance Reports	Moderate
Communications	Performance Reporting	Change Requests	Low
Communications	Administrative Closure	Project Archives	Low
Communications	Administrative Closure	Lessons Learned	Low
Communications	Administrative Closure	Project Closure	Low
Risk	Risk Management Planning	Risk Management Plan	Moderate
Risk	Risk Identification	Identified Risks & Triggers	Moderate
Risk	Qualitative Risk Analysis	List of Prioritized Risks & Lists Risks for Additional Analysis & Risk Ranking for the Project	Moderate
Risk	Quantitative Risk Analysis	Prioritized List of Quantified Risks & Probabilistic Analysis of Project & Probability of Achieving	Moderate
Risk	Risk Response Planning	Risk Response Plan	Moderate
Risk	Risk Monitoring & Control	Workaround Plans	Low
Risk	Risk Monitoring & Control	Corrective Actions	Low
Procurement	Procurement Planning	Procurement Management Plan	Low
Procurement	Procurement Planning	Statement of Work	Moderate
Procurement	Solicitation Planning	Procurement Documents	Moderate
Procurement	Solicitation Planning	Evaluation Criteria	Low
Procurement	Solicitation	Proposals	Low
Procurement	Source Selection	Contract	Low
Procurement	Contract Administration	Correspondence	Low
Procurement	Contract Closeout	Formal Acceptance and Closure	Low

2-3-7 Exclusions
Only the documents itemized above will be included in this project. All other documents are hereby formally excluded, unless authorized by an approved Change Request.

Note, however, that the process of Progressive Elaboration means that additional deliverables are likely to be discovered during the other planning processes. While the Scope Statement is “definitive” initially, it will be made obsolete once the Work Breakdown Structure is defined.

Based upon the Project Manager’s evaluation, items added to the Work Breakdown Structure might or might not warrant re-editing the Scope Statement.

2-3-8 Revision History and Authorization to Proceed

Date	Author	Description
3 Jul 2004	Robert Perrine	Initial release.
4 Jul 2004	Robert Perrine	Procurement was moved from an Exclusion to an Inclusion. Also, the prior version of this document was focused on Initiation and Planning. This update corrects that by adding documents from Execution, Controlling and Closing.
5 Jul 2004	Robert Perrine	Updated to refl ect changes identified while creating the Work Breakdown Structure. Also renamed document to refl ect the WBS numbering scheme.
17 Nov 2007	Robert Perrine	Converted back from Adobe to html. I recommend against using Adobe products.
Authorization to Proceed
5 Jul 2004	Robert Perrine - Chairman, Change Control Board
17 Nov 2007	Robert Perrine, Owner of the product