{"id":3809,"date":"2019-06-06T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T13:25:51","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-avoiding-scope-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/thoughtful-thursdays-avoiding-scope-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Avoiding scope creep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Project requirements can change on a moments notice and must be managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the first sign of project requirements changing, stop the work and meet with the stakeholders to review the situation. Trust your intuition about sensing something going adrift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Review the original agreement deliverables and timeline<\/li><li>More work will likely affect the timeline and incur addtional costs<\/li><li>Maintaining the original timeline with additonal work may require addtional resources (read cost increase)<\/li><li>If requirements change, then change the agreement accordingly<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In my opinion, it isn&#8217;t scope creep unless you accept changes in requirements without due consideration to the consequences and changing the agreed to deliverables to accomodate the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good selling,<br>Richard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.<\/a> and I will be happy to respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project requirements can change on a moments notice and must be managed. At the first sign of project requirements changing, stop the work and meet with the stakeholders to review the situation. Trust your intuition&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/thoughtful-thursdays-avoiding-scope-creep\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,3],"tags":[60,35,73],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}