The project scope is another broad project related concept that must be fully understood by the project management team and or the project management team leader in order to get a full and complete comprehension of the project on a big picture level, which will assist more so in the full and utmost understanding of the project in question. The project scope is a fairly all encompassing concept, and refers specifically to any and all work that is set and or scheduled and or required to be performed or completed in order to ultimately facilitate delivery of the final required products, services, and or results that may have a series of specified features and functions associated with them. The project scope is something that may or may not be a firmly and specifically determined concept at an early stage of the project, or rather, it may just be something that develops through the ultimate planning and team determination of exactly how the project is going to proceed once it gets underway.
This term is defined in the 3rd and the 4th edition of the PMBOK.