Project Scope Planning and Business Requirements

Course code PGMT 3115

Credit 3.0

Length 45.0 hours

Course outline View

This course focuses on the critical role of business analysis in defining and managing project scope. It highlights how effective scope management aligns business needs with project deliverables, ensuring successful outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of project scope management for delivering a product or project that meets the collaborators’ and/or partners’ and/or clients’ requirements. Students learn the various product development models and the tools, techniques, and processes required to develop the project scope and how to manage and control it throughout the project.
Key areas include identifying and analyzing business requirements, developing project scope statements, utilizing tools for scope management, managing scope changes, and aligning business objectives with project outcomes. Students will explore various business analysis models and methodologies, gaining practical skills through real-world applications and case studies.

Prerequisites

Missing prerequisites?

Learn more about VCC's academic upgrading or English as a Second Language (ESL) courses, or discover which university transfer options are right for you.

What you will learn

  • Introduction to Business Analysis
    Critical Thinking and System Analysis in a Business Context
    Product and project life cycles
    Product development using specified features and functions
    Key concepts and terminologies of scope management
    Collecting scope requirements and defining project scope
    Managing project expectations
    Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
    Validating and controlling project scope

How to register

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.

Course schedules

Select your program to see the available course schedules.

CRN# Duration Delivery Location
42871 January 5, 2026
to April 18, 2026
Lab
Lecture
VCC Downtown Campus See full schedule

Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule.

Contact us

If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, and we acknowledge our privilege to be here.