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Project Management & Agile · Foundational

Scope Baseline

The approved version of a scope statement, WBS, and WBS dictionary, changeable only through formal change control.

Definition

It is the basis for comparison in Control Scope and a component of the project management plan.

Example

A new feature request is compared with the scope baseline to determine whether it is new scope.

Exam tip

Scope baseline = scope statement + WBS + WBS dictionary.

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