Scope

What is Product Scope vs Project Scope?

Product scope is the features and functions of the thing being delivered; project scope is all the work required to deliver it — including work that never appears in the product: planning, testing, training, documentation, decommissioning the old system.

Measured differently, too: product scope against requirements; project scope against the project management plan. Exam scenarios exploit the gap — "the product is finished" does not mean the project is.

Worked example

Product scope for a toll-bridge system: cameras, plate recognition, billing portal. Project scope adds what the driver never sees: data migration from the old tollbooths, operator training, six months of parallel running, and demolition of the booths themselves. Half the budget lives in that invisible half.

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