The question provides the textbook definition of Project Scope Management. This fundamental project management process involves defining and controlling what is and is not included in a project. The primary goal is to ensure that the project team performs all the work required, and only the work required, to achieve the project's objectives successfully. Estimating and defining the project scope is the specific task that establishes these boundaries, preventing "scope creep" and ensuring resources are focused on delivering the agreed-upon outcomes.

A. Identify Roles and Responsibilities: This task is part of project resource management, focusing on assigning authority and tasks to team members, not defining the work itself.

B. Develop Project Schedule: This task belongs to project schedule management, which concentrates on the timeline, sequencing, and duration of project activities.

C. Identify Resources and Availability: This is a component of project resource management, concerned with acquiring the necessary personnel, equipment, and materials to perform the work.

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

R.

McEvilley

M.

& 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.