Plan scope management defines how to define, validate, and control project scope, establishing the scope and requirements management plans to prevent scope creep and support formal change control.

Assess stakeholders' intangible attributes and evolving relationships to uncover hidden expectations and risks, engage proactively, and collect real requirements aligned with business objectives.

Identify the project charter as a key output of initiation, and explain how it serves as input to scope management by defining the high level project and product scope.

Create a WPX, a work breakdown structure, with key stakeholders using a top-down approach and yellow sticky notes to define deliverables, time, and cost estimates.

Create the WPX, a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to achieve project objectives and deliverables, derived from the defined scope process and linked to the communication plan.

Create a WBS dictionary describing each work package and its relation to the scope baseline, documenting deliverables, milestones, activities, resources, OBSS and RAM to prevent scope creep.

Explore how the responsibility assignment matrix RAM integrates WTS and OBSS to assign tasks, responsibilities, and control accounts across work packages in projects like house construction.

Explore how a control account, also known as a cost account, functions as the summary level element in a work breakdown structure to facilitate planning, monitoring, and controlling a project.

Learn how to validate scope in the monitoring and controlling process group by ensuring deliverables are complete, meet acceptance criteria, and support stakeholder acceptance with sponsor sign-off and corrective actions.

Monitor the status of the project and product scope as part of control scope, and manage changes to the scope baseline to maintain it throughout the project.