MT245 Unit 5 Scope Statement Example

Lights First Among Eight Exclusions: A Unit 5 Scope Statement for the Linden Park Pickleball Courts

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MT245: Project Fundamentals and Project Initiation

Unit 5 Scope Statement

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Ashby Mills, Linden Park and every specification, test and exclusion are composite and illustrative except the court dimensions and net heights, which follow the sport's published rules; the sources cited are real.

Product Description

The project delivers eight outdoor pickleball courts on the footprint of Linden Park tennis courts 3 and 4.

Each court measures 20 by 44 feet, as set out in the sport's official rulebook (USA Pickleball, 2024), inside a playing area of 30 by 60 feet that gives room behind the baselines and beside the sidelines. Lines are two inches wide in a color that contrasts with the court surface. Nets are permanent, 36 inches high at the posts and 34 inches at the center, matching the rulebook. Court pairs are separated by divider fencing four feet high. The existing perimeter fence stays, with acoustic panels added along the north side facing Orchard Lane.

Deliverables and Tests

Each deliverable is paired with the test that shows it is done. Larson and Gray (2021) argue that a deliverable without an acceptance test invites disagreement at handover, because each side judges completion by its own standard.

Resurfaced and lined courts. Test: after the surface is flooded, no puddle deeper than the thickness of a nickel remains after one hour; all lines measured within a quarter inch of specification.

Net systems. Test: net height measured at posts and center on every court, within a quarter inch of the rulebook heights.

Divider fencing and acoustic panels. Test: all fence sections plumb and tensioned; panels installed across the full length of the north fence.

An accessible walkway linking the lot to the courts. Test: slope and width checked by the town's accessibility coordinator against the town's standard.

Posted rules signs at each court entrance. Test: signs installed and the wording approved by the recreation coordinator.

Exclusions

Eight items are excluded. They are grouped by why someone might assume they were included, because the reason for the assumption suggests who will raise it and how to answer.

Neighboring facilities. People assume a project improves everything nearby.

Court lighting. Return condition: a separate project after a neighborhood hearing, with its own budget and a lighting study.

Parking lot expansion. Return condition: if court use exceeds parking capacity on three or more summer weekends, public works will propose a separate project.

Restrooms. Return condition: the park's five-year plan already lists a restroom building; it stays in that plan.

Resurfacing courts 1 and 2. Return condition: when their condition rating falls below fair, as a separate tennis project.

Later phases. People assume courts come with the program that uses them.

League programming. Return condition: the recreation department will plan a league as its own project once the courts open.

Online court reservations. Return condition: considered after one season of use data shows whether demand needs managing.

Ordinary expectations. People assume a new facility comes with amenities.

Loaner paddles and balls. Return condition: the pickleball club may offer them through its own program.

Shade structures. Return condition: a later grant application if summer heat complaints are recorded.

Lights are left out not because nobody wants them but because nobody has yet agreed to pay for them or live beside them.

How the Exclusions Will Be Communicated

An exclusion only helps if the people who would assume otherwise hear about it. The recreation coordinator will put the exclusions list on the project's page on the town website, read the lighting exclusion aloud at the council meeting where the grant is accepted and send the list to the pickleball club board and the adult tennis association before construction begins. A short version, stating that lights, restrooms and reservations are not part of this project, will go on the construction fence sign. When a resident asks about an excluded item, staff will answer with the return condition, so the answer is not simply no but what would have to happen for the item to be considered.

Why the Return Conditions Matter

Each return condition gives an excluded item a path back. Without one, an exclusion reads as a refusal, and residents who want lights or shade will push to add them during construction, when changes cost most. With one, the item has a known route: a hearing, a grant cycle or a usage threshold. The conditions also protect the project manager, who can point to the scope statement when someone asks for a change that belongs to a different project.

Constraints and Assumptions

The work must be done when air temperatures allow acrylic surfacing, stay within the authorized budget and avoid the high school's spring use of courts 1 and 2. The scope assumes the asphalt base beneath courts 3 and 4 is sound; if the contractor's core samples show otherwise, the scope must be revisited, because base reconstruction is not included.

Change Control

Any change to the deliverables or exclusions follows the charter's authority rules: the recreation coordinator may approve changes up to $5,000 within budget, and any change that adds or removes a deliverable goes to the director. PMI (2021) treats a clear scope baseline as the reference against which every change request is judged, and this statement is that baseline.

References

Larson, E. W., & Gray, C. F. (2021). Project management: The managerial process (8th ed.). McGraw-Hill.

Project Management Institute. (2021). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide) (7th ed.). Project Management Institute.

USA Pickleball. (2024). Official rulebook. https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/official-rules/