Agile? • In project management, the scope defines the project's boundaries: What is to be delivered and what is not. • The scope differs from requirements because requirements describe what users can do with a product and how the product should behave. • The scope should be agreed upon upfront with stakeholders to avoid conflicts.
• Scope management assists a Product Owner in making informed decisions because the Product Owner make decisions based on the tradeoffs between scope, timeline, and resources. • It is to control stakeholders’ expectations. Stakeholders such as clients expect what to be delivered based on the scope. • It is also for productivity and delivering values. A development team may end up with little or non-accomplishments.
Waterfall • Agile changes the scope based on fixed timeline and resources. • Waterfall changes timeline and resources based on fixed scope. Source: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/agile-at-scale/agile-iron-triangle
• Product Vision shows why the product exists. • Sprint Goal describes the objectives of Sprint. • Sprint Backlog is Product Backlog Items that should be done within a Sprint.
roadmap describes the long-term roadmap based on Theme, the highest level of the Product Backlog hierarchy. • The theme describes a high-level objective the development team aims to achieve over time. • It is one of the best ways to manage scope, as the Product Backlog is a single artifact source.