Scoping
Early and Comprehensive
Incorporating best practices throughout all districts, the scoping process emphasizes early, comprehensive, well-documented scoping of a project, and establishes a change process.
It calls for:
- Conducting scoping before programming the project into the STIP
- Involving stakeholders in the scoping process and clearly identifying project purposes before completing scoping
- Reducing uncertainties by investigating scope elements and making appropriate decisions
- Developing a timeline for the planning-scoping-programming cycle
- Documenting the scope, scope decisions and scope changes
- Obtaining approval for a project scoping report and amendments
The following documents describe the scoping process:
- Scoping Fact Sheet (PDF 37KB)
- Scoping Executive Summary (PDF 78KB)
- Scoping Process Flowchart (PDF 39KB)
- Scoping Process Narrative (PDF 166KB)
Scoping tools include the following (click to download files):
- Master Project Document List (Word 50KB)
- Planning Lists (Excel 32KB)
- Project Planning Report (Word 98KB)
- Early Notification Memo
- Scoping Worksheets (Word 434KB)
- Request for Bridge Scoping & Cost Estimating Assessment (Word 116KB)
- Project Scoping Report (Word 73KB)
- Project Change Request Form (Word 54KB)
- Program Evaluation Document (Word 51KB)
Publications
What's New
- Training Schedule Announced
- Implementation begins
- Office of Project Scope and Cost Management established
- Peer Review Workshop applies key concept