Managing Scope in Agile Projects

Summary

Agile embraces changing requirements, but that doesn't mean unlimited scope creep — a BA helps the team distinguish genuine priority shifts from scope creep that threatens sprint or release commitments.

• 1Recall a project (yours or observed) that suffered from scope creep and diagnose why.
• 2Practice the phrase 'let's add this to the backlog for next sprint' instead of squeezing in mid-sprint changes.
• 3Learn to distinguish a genuinely urgent priority shift from routine feature creep.