Due to the project scope being fixed for the time period, but the customer's business constantly changing, the customer usually really wants to change their scope frequently. And what's even worse is that the larger the project, the more likely it will be that this will happen. So here are website to assist you to manage the scope of a project.

1. Cast in concrete.
This may seem easy, nonetheless it is important that the scope is defined properly and in very much detail.

2. Proper Planning.
When doing the project plan, it is best to group all of the activities in relevant groups that are associated with your deliverables. This way you can easily and quickly see which activities donate to the delivery which deliverable.

This will also ensure that once you have completed a group of activities, that you could mark the deliverable as completed. This will also add the benefit of easily reporting on the status of each deliverable also to monitor the progress on each deliverable.

3. Quality measurement.
As important as it would be to complete and deliver a deliverable, could it be to ensure that you deliver the quality that meets the need of your customer. These expectations that describe the way the deliverable will be measured to make sure they meet up with the customer's expectations are called 'quality targets'.

To ensure that you meet these quality targets, will demand that you have 'quality controls' set up. These controls will make sure that the deliverable can do what it was attempt to do. Only when this is in place, are you considering able to ensure that your customer will sign off each deliverable and the project as a whole.

4. Managing scope change.
Every time a customer requests a change to the scope of the project, make sure that the requirements are properly documented and review the impact on the project deliverables. Make sure that once you have documented any impact, being cost, time or deliverable change, the client signs the scope change document. Then be certain that the additional resources, time, money or people are provided and assigned to the project. Where necessary, hold scope change meetings to go over the change and prioritize against the current deliverables.

5. Reporting.
All changes and their influence on the project must be reported appropriately. This will make sure that if you go past the project deadline that you could prove that is was because of scope change. In this manner the stakeholders could be more acceptable to the slippage.

Thus by defining the scope properly in the beginning of the project, adding your deliverables to your project plan, manage any scope changes and monitor the standard of all deliverables it is possible to manage the scope of the project in a far more formal manner, which will provide you with the benefit of an improved managed project.