PMI CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) Examination Content OutlinePredictive, Plan-Based MethodologiesMedium
A project manager is tasked with creating a detailed plan for how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed throughout the project lifecycle. This plan will also define the process for prioritizing requirements and obtaining stakeholder sign-off. Which document is the project manager developing?
- ARequirements Management Plan
- BRequirements Traceability Matrix
- CScope Management Plan
- DWork Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: A. Requirements Management Plan
The Requirements Management Plan describes how project requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed. It outlines the processes for prioritizing, verifying, and validating requirements, and how changes will be handled.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. A Requirements Traceability Matrix links requirements to their origin and subsequent artifacts, but is an output, not a plan for managing them.
- C. The Scope Management Plan describes how the project scope will be defined, developed, monitored, controlled, and verified, but not specifically the requirements themselves.
- D. The WBS is a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work, not a plan for managing requirements.
Requirements Management Plan
A component of the project or program management plan that describes how requirements will be analyzed, documented, and managed.
- Defines the process for requirements activities.
- Covers prioritization, verification, and validation.
- Outlines how changes to requirements will be managed.
Memory trick: Scope defines the boundaries, Requirements detail the needs.