Business Project Management: Dealing with Scope Creep

Running head: BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Business Project Management
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1BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Initial Prompt
This prompt discusses the concept of project scope creep in the context of project
management. In this post the concept of project scope creep is demonstrated based on the work
project in which I was involved: affordable housing project. Whenever a project stretches beyond
its actual vision and missions it is called project scope creep. In most case project’s objectives or
outcomes fails to meet expectation due to project scope creep.
Example: When I was involved to an affordable housing development project due to
certain legal issues and economic drawback we had to stop the project progress for 2 days.
During the implementation of any project the project managers may face different challenges. I
think that these challenges are required to be resolved or reduced to avoid project failure. Scope
creep is referred to as one of the most frequently occurring project level challenges that is needed
to be eliminated from all projects.
However after 2 days the project team received a completely modified project scope. Not
only this but also during the project development period the owners demand keep on changing
and based on that we had to change the project scope as well. It caused overrunning budget and
over allocation of time as well. We have planned to complete the project within the budget and
time of respectively $90,000 and 16 months but due to these reasons a delay occurred. In order to
avoid the delay we added more resources to our project activities, which caused budget
increment. Due to this scope creep the project was though implemented but not satisfactory from
the project management perspectives.