Project Management

Please login or join to subscribe to this thread

Most Common Causes of Scope Creep

linkedin twitter facebook   Organizational Project Management   Quality   Scope Management   Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)  
avatar
Damian Perera Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist| Chrysalis Mellawagedara, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Scope creep is one of the major reasons behind project faliure. Causes of scope creep may differ from one industry to another. What are the most common causes of scope creep in your industry?
Sort By:
< 1 2 >
avatar
Konstantin Tushkov Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
I meet the same problems at many companies.

First of all, it is when we have the clearly enough and absolutely completely defined requirements, but they aren't related to real business goals. That causes often changing the requirements and lack of measuring a result.
Second, it is customer thought that always could be done by the magical way without their attendance. It could be called the lack of the customer attendance. This case causes an inability to make changes on time with all the attendant consequences.
Thirdly, unmanageable processes — including the management of requirements — of the executor. When you can't monitor needed activities you can't be warned about possible risks and never know the result will be done on time and with an expected quality.

I have listed only the most significant moments.
avatar
Alok Priyadarshi Project Manager| Tata Consulting Engineers Limited Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Ineffective stakeholders engagement
Ambiguous requirements
Unrealistic timeline

Above contribute lot to scope creep.
avatar
Gaurav Pradeep New Delhi, Delhi, India
Misconceived requirements, gold plating and not having change control process in place - all lead to scope creep.
avatar
Damian Perera Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist| Chrysalis Mellawagedara, Western Province, Sri Lanka
Thank you for all your replies. It was interesting to go through each of them.
avatar
David Fernando Tello Chávez PM III| Abengoa Perú Lima, Lima, Peru
To much resources at the end of the project
avatar
Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Here is another kind of Scoop creep. I have seen the case of gold plating by Architect, to eventually qualified for some international prices!
avatar
Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Not follow the defined project change control management process.
< 1 2 >

Please login or join to reply

Content ID:
ADVERTISEMENTS

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend to read it."

- Groucho Marx

ADVERTISEMENT

Sponsors







Vendor Events

See all Vendor Events

Newsletters

Jun 3: The Career Problem Facing New PMs
May 20: Your PM Career as a Project Life Cycle
May 13: The Big Lie After Layoffs

See all newsletters