Scope Creep

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Scope creep in project management refers to continuous or uncontrolled changes/growth in a project’s scope, after the project begins. This takes place when the scope of a project is not defined, documented or controlled properly, considered to be a harmful process. It starts with small adjustments and the project ends up taking a longer duration to complete or even fails before completion.

Score creep can occur due to lack of clarity of the project and its objectives, changing market conditions, poor communication between the team, poorly defined initial requirements, etc. To avoid such kinds of scope creeps, the project leader/manager should consider minute adjustments to the original project scope carefully to make only those necessary changes and ensure it does not go beyond the limits of the project’s scope.

For example, ‘A’ assigns an ad campaign to Team B with a fixed budget, schedule and requirements. Once the team starts with the project, B takes up new requirements from A and communicates it to the team, not realizing those additions are way beyond the time limit and budget. At the end of the day, the team is not able to complete the project on time due to lack of budget and time as the project took a different path midway.

How can you prevent such scope creeps? Firstly, document all your requirements for the project including milestones, budget and timeframe. Fix a change protocol that prevents scope creep and make a clear schedule for the project. Once the schedule is ready, verify the same with your client to avoid any further changes and begin with your project.

Changes to a project by adding extra features to the end result, aka gold plating, is appreciated but that should not take the project in a different path. Stick to the initial budget, schedule and requirements so as to ace the project.

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