When the project was started, the top management of the A.T.S components (CTP gathered in the Committee of Technical Project ) gave full authority to the project manager to proceed with the “planning process” considering the crucial work for the project success.

As known, the processes of Project Management are not entirely sequential , instead presenting a certain level of overlap.

The planning, and subsequently the management of the project, saw the processes necessary to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, for the purpose of its successful conclusion.

The primary goal was to define and control what is included in the project and, no less important aspect especially for the management of the area, what is not.

The Project Scope, in fact, has included the processes necessary to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, for its successful conclusion.

The sub-processes of scope planning “Project Scope” have been :

Creation of a project management plan, which documents how the project scope will be defined, verified and controlled and how the work break down structure will be created and defined;            

Scope definition : development of a detailed description of the project scope, as a basis for future project decisions; 

Creation of the WBS : subdivision of the main products (deliverables ) of the project, and of the work included in the project, into smaller and therefore more manageable components;

Scope verification: formal acceptance of the project WBS

WBS

The WBS illustrated below, allows the precise allocation through the creation of detailed elements (Work Package or WP) and connects the latter with specific responsibilities. WBS, like all plans, must be considered flexible and susceptible to changes and improvements in progress. It was therefore the document in which the project team outlined all the actions necessary to complete the execution of the project. These elements are, in turn, composed of elementary sub-parts, which represent the last level of decomposition, called WP (Work-Package).

WP (Work Packages)