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| Picture gotten from Xavier Leadership Center. |
Change they say is the only constant thing! While some changes come with bells and whistles, others are as meek and harmless as a sheep. This is the tale of scope creep. It might be as simple as one or two minor added task that might not hurt the project in the short term, to an outrageous request from stakeholders to add a major feature to the project. Either ways scope creep is unavoidable! In the project management world, scope creep is to a project as man is to breathing in oxygen. According to Howitz, although there are several reasons why a project could fail, but one of the major reasons is scope creep (Howitz, C. 2010).That is not to say as project managers we should just sit around, fold our arms and do nothing about it. Scope creep itself is not always the ugly monster some project managers paint it to be, how it is managed is what matters the most (Russell, L.2007). Now comes the big question, how can scope creep be managed?
