SAB9#48_Validate_scope

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•  The Validate Scope process actually involves frequent, planned meetings with the customer or sponsor to gain formal acceptance of deliverables during project monitoring and controlling.

1. Requirements documentation
2. Traceability matrix
3. Deliverables

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   • These are verified deliverables, which means they’ve been through Perform Quality Control.
4. Work performance data

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   • As per the PMBOK Guide, the work performance data is “the raw observations and measurements identified during activities performed to carry out the project work; e.g. actual cost, actual duration, and percent of work physically completed.”
5. Group decisionmaking techniques
   1. Once the stakeholders have inspected the deliverables, they’ll need to decide whether or not the deliverables can be accepted
   2. This is where the stakeholders actually look closely at the what the team did and make sure that every single piece of work was completed.
6. Verified deliverables
   1. If the team did the work right, then the stakeholders will formally accept the deliverables (which means they do it in writing).
7. Change requests
8. Project document updates
9. Work performance information

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   • As per the PMBOK Guide, the work performance information is “the performance data collected from various controlling processes, analyzed in context and integrated based on relationships across areas; e.g. status of deliverables, and forecasted estimates to complete, etc.”
10. Relationship between validate scope and control quality