{"id":307,"date":"2011-03-28T07:58:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:03:43","slug":"avoid-scope-creep-from-ruining-your-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/archives\/307","title":{"rendered":"Avoid Scope Creep from ruining your projects!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sooner or later every project managers experience Scope Creep while managing projects. This phenomenon is very well-known in the project management planet, where you will observe any uncontrolled amount of changes in the project scope is called Scope Creep. <\/p>\n<p>Scope Creep is risk in most projects. And Yes; Scope Creep is way different than Scope change. Scope change is authorized change in the project and the outcome reflects modification in Scope requirements, time, resources, and budget. But when there is Scope Creep, it overruns everything. <\/p>\n<p>Scope Creep is inevitable; it\u2019s natural in every project. But by practicing following techniques it can be avoided if one<br \/>\n\u2022\tFully understand the project vision\/goal<br \/>\n\u2022\tDevelops well-written project scope statement which is agreed by the client<br \/>\n\u2022\tEnsures that project requirements are documented and approved<br \/>\n\u2022\tDefine project deliverables \u2013 break the project down in actual work requirements<br \/>\n\u2022\tkeeps some buffer time<br \/>\n\u2022\tClearly defines the change control process<\/p>\n<p>It is project managers\u2019 responsibility to ask right questions to the stakeholders to achieve their goals\/requirements. If you start implementing these techniques, you are in a better position to control your project, instead of your project controlling you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sooner or later every project managers experience Scope Creep while managing projects. This phenomenon is very well-known in the project management planet, where you will observe any uncontrolled amount of changes in the project scope is called Scope Creep. Scope Creep is risk in most projects. And Yes; Scope Creep is way different than Scope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycre8ivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}