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Advancing a project's completion date represents a change to the schedule baseline, which requires a formal project change request form to ensure proper documentation and processing through the change control system.

Before any change, especially one impacting the schedule and potentially other baselines, is approved, the project manager must analyze the project's impact on scope, cost, quality, and resources to understand the full implications.

The project scope statement defines the work to be performed; a change to the completion date primarily affects the schedule, not necessarily the scope, unless a scope reduction is proposed as a solution.

The scope management plan outlines how scope will be managed; it is a process document and is not revised for a specific change request to the project schedule.

Monitoring work performance is an ongoing process of tracking, reviewing, and reporting project progress, but it is not the direct action for formally documenting and evaluating a new change request.