Managing Scope Creep

Summary

Recognizing and pushing back on small, seemingly-reasonable additions that quietly balloon a project's timeline — usually solved by explicitly protecting the original scope, not by working faster.

• 1Recall a project (yours or observed) that suffered from scope creep and diagnose why.
• 2Practice the phrase 'let's ship this first, then evaluate that as a fast-follow'.
• 3Learn to write explicit 'out of scope' sections in specs to prevent this upfront.