When 83% of our survey participants responded that scope creep reared its ugly head on almost every one of their projects, we immediately said, "here we go again!" Scope creep is the scapegoat for most of our troubles with projects. Our analysis showed that there are two types of changes to the scope of a project; those that are legitimate, and those that are illegitimate.
Each has its own impact, causes, early detection symptoms, and solutions. Suffice to say, that illegitimate scope creep must be stopped, and legitimate scope creep must be managed effectively otherwise, the obstacle will manifest! Legitimate scope creep cannot possibly damage your project, so let's be careful about blaming it for our project's demise.
We may not like where the blame winds up sticking.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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Illegitimate scope creep ... ok, I'll bite.
What would be the criteria to label "newly discovered" scope as illegitimate?
Aha! Good catch. Easy answer...there wouldn't be any. "Newly discovered" scope is handled under a different TOP 10 obstacles to project success; "Invisible Requirements"
These would be requirements that would have otherwise been 'caught' during normal planning functions, but for some reason were missed.
Where as, Legitimate Scope Creep would mean "A legitimate need driving a change in scope." (ie: market conditions have changed, and putting out the product in its current designed condition makes no further sense, a change is needed in product design.)
Or Illegitimate Scope Creep meaning "Illegitimate requests to change scope." (ie: Hey, while we have the patient open...why don't we also take out the appendix, he won't be using it anyway, whattayasay?" Or something like that. ;0
Give me an industry, and I'll give you a more effective example. :)
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