How to overcome from project challenges?

How to overcome from project challenges? - 1) Scope Creep

As a Project manager we face lot of challenges in project, we will discuss Scope Creep and how to overcome from the challenges.

Scope creep:

Project scope is all the of the work that needs to be done to make the product.

This is the big part of what the project manager's are concerned with. This is the work the team has to do.

Scope creep means uncontrolled changes that causes the team to extra work.

Uncontrolled means the change that team is working without bothering about project's time, cost, scope, quality, risk and resource utilization.

Question comes to our mind is why scope changes?

1) Good change

Good change happens rarely in the project, it simplify the way of implementing the requirement and design.

2) Bad change

When you see from outside it' looks good when we start implementing it affects all the criteria mentioned above.

Scope creep is one of the bad change, when we implement one change it leads to new one and it go uncontrollable.

Gold plating is the another type where a developer thinks of a way to make a feature better (without discussing with anyone)

This may sounds good but we have to pay for these features not asked by customer.

We need to use the technique "Control Scope process" to overcome this challenge.

First we need to have the baselined project scope document. If we are following scrum. We need to finalize the Epic's planned for the release.

Project manager need to perform variance analysis against the baselined project scope if any changes coming then he need to follow the CRB process to include part of the requirement and update the project documents including baselined project scope and project plan.

Project manager need to proactively engaging with clients during the project planning phase can help you get their exact requirements as well as understand their expectations.

In addition, planning your resource and talent usage accurately.

It’s also important to not take up ad-hoc change requests during project execution as this can result in delays and added costs. Stick to the initial plan.

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