How to Reconcile Scope Creep in Agile Development

Product development can often feel like racing toward a moving finish line. Projects often go over budget and deadlines are easily missed. Even worse, constant changes can turn a straightforward project into one doomed to fail. Project managers and scrum masters accept the perils of evolving project deliverables and timelines. They use the resources at their disposal to mitigate risk and navigate around potential disasters. It starts with a management framework. Markets and trends in the business world shift quickly. Seeing the writing on the wall, 36% of product or application owners and 32% of engineering and R&D teams have adopted agile practices. Chances are your company has adopted an agile approach to manage fast-changing expectations and demands. But being agile doesn’t mean you’re immune to the dangers of scope creep. Here, we’ll explain how you can manage scope creep in agile development for your next product. What is scope creep? So, what exactly is scope creep in projec ... Read full article.