What is Feature Creep in Project Management?
Product life cycle has major contribution in this case. Product life cycle consists of following phases :
1) Initially when the product is launched.
2) Growth phase revenue grows on.
3) Mature phase i.e. stable growth rate.
4) Decline product losses its market share.
Creep project management features behaves in the following manner. When the product is launched and till it gets out of the market. Software project management templates analyses all these phases and interpret the report on this basis.
By Ray White Feature Creep: Small product feature additions that expand a project scope. Feature creep is one of the big reasons projects ship late. Some people simply cannot deny themselves. They want more and more features in their great new product, and can’t stop adding them Here’s how it happens. When a new product feature is complete, there are oohs and aahs from all the project stakeholders. They love it! Why? Because they are sure customers will find it useful and reward the company with more business. That’s only natural. But then something else happens… One of the stakeholders steps up and says, “That’s cool, but can it do one more little thing?” All the other stakeholders agree. The new feature you added is nice, but the product should do one more thing to be complete. And they may be right. So you add that. And a few more things. And a few more things after that. That’s feature creep. Little additions creep into your product features until they consume a major part of the p
