Scope Management Plan:

If a change to Wedding Cake Bakery scope is needed, the process for recommending and estimating changes to the scope of the project must be carried out. Any project team member or Sponsor can request changes to the project scope. All change requests must be submitted to the Project Director in the form of a project change request document. The Project Director will then review the suggested change to the scope of the project. The Project Director will then either reject the change request if it does not apply to the intent of the project, or convene a Change Control meeting between the project team and Sponsor to review the change request further and perform an impact assessment of the change. If the change request receives initial approval by the Project Director and Sponsor, the Project Director will then formally submit the change request to the Change Control Board. If the Change Control Board approves the scope change the Project Sponsor will then formally accept the change by signing the project change control document. Upon acceptance of the scope change by the Change Control Board and Project Sponsor the Project Director will update all project documents and communicate the scope change to all project team members’ stakeholders.

Assignment:

Your course project is now in the Execution phase and as expected, a change has been introduced. (1) Review the change and then apply your Scope Management Plan toward accepting, reviewing, approving, and incorporating the change. (2) Provide a detailed summary of each of the steps.

Do not minimize the impact of the proposed change, all of these represent significant changes that should impact many areas of the project plan; especially the timeline and budget, and provisions must be made to accommodate the change throughout the project plan. Because the change is considered mandatory, the option to circumvent the change is not available.  

Project Change:  

The owner has decided that you must add a decorative awning to the 25 ft. front window of the store; the awning must fit the color scheme and include custom lettering promoting the bakery. The bakery cannot proceed with opening day unit the awning is ordered, received, and installed. The estimated cost for the creation and installation of the awning is $10,000 and there is no additional money to be added to the budget.