What is Scope Creep and how does it affect projects?
“Scope Creep” refers to the natural proclivity of the project to accumulate additional requirements as the project progress. When many teams/people are working on the same project, as it goes through different stages/teams, additional requirements get added on at every stage by the people involved. Further, sometimes the project planning is done keeping the major requirements in mind, and the clients add additional minor requirements without changing the plan accordingly. This tendency of a project to gather additional requirements is known as “scope creep”. This is an example of how clients raise the scope and go against the triple constraint (scope triangle).
