Scope Creep Project Manager's Nightmare Experience
When a project starts every team member is hopeful for the great success of the project. The excitement will all be focused on realizing the scope of the project as proposed by stakeholders and as agreed by the project team and team manager. No one will be expecting the project manager's nightmare, project scope creeps. This is what happened when we had a church project, constructing a building in South Africa. The main scope of the project was to build the main church building but It ended up being changed to become the main church building combined with the offices and guest restrooms together. The scope of the project is understood as " The extent of what project will produce (product scope) and the work needed to produce it (project scope). (Project Management Institute, 2008). In project management, one thing that is taken on board is that managing scope is an essential component of a project manager's role, especially after the commencement and when the proje...
