1. Project Management Institute. (2017). A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (6th ed.). The introduction to Chapter 5
"Project Scope Management
" states
"Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required
and only the work required
to complete the project successfully." (p. 129).
2. Ross
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McEvilley
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& Oren
J. (2018). Systems Security Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Building Trustworthy Resilient Systems (NIST Special Publication 800-160
Vol. 1). National Institute of Standards and Technology. Section 2.3.3 discusses the importance of project planning
which includes defining the scope of engineering activities within the system life cycle to ensure security requirements are adequately addressed.
3. MIT OpenCourseWare. (2006). 16.852J / ESD.34J Integrating the Lean Enterprise
Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lecture 3 notes on "Project Management" define the project scope as one of the three critical constraints (along with time and cost)
emphasizing it as the definition of the work to be accomplished.