Plan Scope Management and what does it produce?

• A. It outlines the project communications plan
• B. It identifies the project stakeholders and their engagement strategies
• C. It creates the Work Breakdown Structure
• D. It defines how scope will be defined, validated, and controlled, and how requirements will be collected and managed.

Answer: (D)

Plan Scope Management establishes how the project scope will be defined, validated, and controlled, and how requirements will be collected and managed. This plan sets the approach for determining what work is in scope, how stakeholders will approve the scope, and how changes to scope will be handled, creating a formal, repeatable process to manage scope and requirements throughout the project. The other activities described in the choices—planning communications, identifying and engaging stakeholders, and building the Work Breakdown Structure—are produced by other planning processes (Plan Communications Management, Identify Stakeholders and Plan Stakeholder Engagement, and Create WBS, respectively), not by Plan Scope Management.