Preventing/Minimizing Scope Creep
The following situation is a dramatization… (or is it?).
You have just begun a new LIMS project, and everything appears to be going smoothly.
As the project continues to move forward, the stakeholders keep adding extra features. You feel that you are losing control of the project budget and timelines and that the project has taken on a life of its own. You wonder,
“Don’t they realize that these changes are out of scope from the original requirements? Do they think that all these additions and changes are no big deal?”
All you can think about is “We are over the project budget and our deadline is toast. No one is thinking about how these changes affect the overall implementation.“ You feel trapped in a vicious cycle of change orders, and there’s no clear end in sight.
If you had a feeling of déjà vu while reading this dramatization, and you realize it is not exactly fiction… you’ve experienced Scope Creep!
