Have you ever heard of project management scope creep, and you want to
know how to prevent it, well by the end of this video I'm gonna give you all the
tips and tricks on how to do just that, how to prevent it, how to identify it, and
most importantly, how to manage it, so stay tuned, now if you really want to
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you every Wednesday. I have helped countless of project teams, and project
managers, understand, and how to manage project management scope creep, so if you
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let's get to it. Investigate why it's happening, all right, before we even get
into how to investigate, let's first understand and define scope creep, scope
creep is uncontrolled changes to the scope due to interference from
stakeholders, or due to misunderstandings from the project manager, this is really
important that you understand what this is, because if you're having scope creep,
and things are now moving away from what you originally thought, you gotta
investigate why, so is there a really good legitimate reason for this
happening, are people just asking for additional stuff, without understanding
really the ramifications of their request, because this is something you do
not want to have happen on your project, it will ultimately paralyze you, and it's
just gonna make life really difficult, so investigate why scope creep is
happening. Change control, another way to figure out why scope creep is happening
is, to actually have people who are asking for the additional items to the
scope, is to have them fill out a change control form, this is a very systematic
way to get all the information, as to, what is the change that they're asking
for, what are the benefits of the change, what's the impact of the change,
interestingly enough, this simple tool and technique, if you give it to someone
who is asking for this scope change, which in essence is a scope creep, you'll
be surprised, as soon as they have to fill out a form, all of a sudden, it's not that
important, so it's a nice way to vet things out, so not only investigate,
but start using a change control form to start managing any scope creep. Priority
matrix, oh I love this tool, my goodness, it is the most simplest tool,
but the most powerful tool that you can have, and it's this tool that you want to
do at the beginning of the project with senior management, and basically it's
around scope, time, and budget, that you're gonna find out what's a constraint, so
what is it, I've scope, time and budget that we cannot move, what do we want to
optimize from scope, time, and budget, and what's acceptable to change away, now the
reason why I love this tool is, you do it at the beginning, when things are fine,
easy-peasy, and everyone gives their permission, yeah it's gonna be scope that
we are gonna make sure is a constraint, and budget, oh we can accept that every
single time we want, so the reason why I love this tool so much is, when scope
creep happens, which usually tends to be in the middle of a project, when people
want extra things, you bring up this tool, you say, okay, we agreed that we're not
changing scope, it has to be constraint, and everyone's already signed off on it,
so it's an amazing powerful tool for you, to ensure, that that scope scope creep
doesn't even happen, so what a nice way to just nip things in
the bud, let me know, has that ever happened to you where you had scope
creep, and did you have a specific tool that you use, put it in the comments
below. Accept that change is constant, all right,
in the ideal world you'd say, Adriana, scope creep shouldn't even happen,
okay, well yeah that's true, however, the reality is, not everybody's a project
manager, and understands how powerfully a disruptive scope creep is, so just accept
that change is constant, and as a result, you're gonna have people constantly
coming up to you asking for change, but if you investigate why, if you actually
take a look with a change control form, and if you got that priority matrix, you
are set up for success, and you won't have to worry about those changes,
because you can nip everything in the bud, now that you know how to manage
scope creep effectively and efficiently, it is time for you to learn about why
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