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Scope Creep

Baselines – Don’t Leave Planning Without Them
Estimating and Planning, Project Management, Scope Creep, Watermark Learning

Baselines – Don’t Leave Planning Without Them

When I ask project managers what a baseline is and why it’s important, they tell me that it is an approved starting point against which project performance is measured. They are right, of course.  But when I ask them if they use baselines, as often as not, I find that baselining is a fundamental project […]

Manage Scope Change or Let It Creep
Change, Project Management, Scope Creep

Manage Scope Change or Let It Creep?

One of my favorite definitions of projects is “Projects are how organizations adapt to change.”  Projects are essentially the vehicle for organizational change.  Getting stakeholder agreement around that idea would not likely present much of a challenge. Change within a project, however, is often the source of great consternation among project managers and stakeholders, particularly as