Project Creep

Project Creep

A slang term for the gradual extension of a deadline, especially if the parameters of a project are moved repeatedly. See also: Scope creep.
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At this step in the process, you have reached a logical point in the project plan path that including features outside of the chosen path could be allowed with little issues, and could be argued that it is not project creep.
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Project creep is the cancer that usually causes a project to miss overall goals and increases management frustration.
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To protect against project creep (that dangerous lack of adherence to project parameters, goals, and agreements), Flagstar set a date after which no further additions could be made to the scope of the design and implementation.
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Letting the scope of the project creep much beyond the initial boundaries on which budgets and timelines were predicated risks harming one or more of the legs of the iron triangle: quality, speed, and cost.
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