Validate Scope is part of the “Scope Management” Knowledge Area, and is part of the “Monitoring and Controlling” Process Group.
Validate Scope is the process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. The key benefit of this process is that it brings objectivity to the acceptance process and increases the chance of final product, service, or result acceptance by validating each deliverable.
The verified deliverables obtained from the Control Quality process are reviewed with the customer or sponsor to ensure that they are completed satisfactorily and have received formal acceptance of the deliverables by the customer or sponsor. In this process, the outputs obtained as a result of the Planning processes in the Project Scope Management Knowledge Area, such as the requirements documentation or the scope baseline, as well as the work performance data obtained from the Execution processes in other Knowledge Areas, are the basis for performing the validation and for final acceptance.
The Validate Scope process differs from the Control Quality process in that the former is primarily concerned with acceptance of the deliverables, while quality control is primarily concerned with correctness of the deliverables and meeting the quality requirements specified for the deliverables. Control Quality is generally performed before Validate Scope, although the two processes may be performed in parallel.
This definition was found in the PMBOK V5
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Validate Scope has:
Inputs:
- Project Management Plan
- Requirements documentation
- Requirements Traceability Matrix
- Verified deliverables
- Work performance data
Outputs:
- Accepted deliverables
- Change requests
- Project documents updates
- Work performance information
Tools and techniques:
- Group decision-making techniques
- Inspection
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