How to Avoid Scope Creep and Stay on Track with Your Projects #projectmanagementtips #leadership
9 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker shares a personal anecdote illustrating how seemingly simple deliverables can evolve into scope creep. He describes creating a basic communication plan—a spreadsheet listing sender, receiver, date, and platform—for a technology implementation. Although the task appears straightforward, the statement of work allocates a substantial amount of a consultant’s (Patrick’s) time, multiplies it by his billing rate, and results in a $50,000 charge, highlighting how minor tasks can be inflated into costly scope expansions.










