Scope Creep: Learning From Experience
Scope creep can happen in all sorts of projects, whether for a personal or professional project you are working on. Sometimes, stakeholders can warn of possible issues that can arise; other times, they can happen from out of nowhere. For this blog, I will be sharing one experience in which scope creep occurred, how I handled the situation at the time, and what I would do differently now. I was a part of a team developing a demonstration video to train educators on how to fill out an observation form on the children. This part was one section of a grand training plan to implement a new curriculum; thus, this section was critical for other areas of the training plan to be implemented. Since this was the first time either of the team members had created a demonstration video using PowerPoint and distributed the video to the educators as part of a blended learning training, we tried to account for all the details as best as we could. At first, everything was going according to plan. We
