Chapter 4
Assessing scope and impact
4.1 The danger of ‘scope creep’
4.2 Know the difference: impacted, interested and involved
4.3 Understand the problem situation
4.5 Make it visual with a business use case model
4.7 Set the boundaries of scope
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4. Assessing scope and impact
4.1 The danger of ‘scope creep’
As problem-solving projects or initiatives progress, there is a tendency for their scope to inadvertently increase. Stakeholders mention other related (but different) problems, and there is a desire to fix those too. Care must be taken not to try to ‘boil the ocean’ – if the scope of our project or initiative is not controlled, we may end up taking ...
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