Neal Whitten's Let's Talk! More No-Nonsense Advice for Project Success

CHAPTER 30

Scope Change Control

“Controlled scope changes are essential to building the ‘right’ product ‘right.’”

Effective change-control process

Q30.1

I have seen many projects suffer from unbridled scope creep. What can be done about this?

A30.1

Every project requires an effective change-control process for managing scope changes. The project manager is accountable for having such a process in place and ensuring that it is enforced. The process can be informal for very small projects or formal for large ones. A change-control process is relatively simple to define and implement. Every change request should be processed through the change-control process and sized for its effect on the project in areas such as schedule, staffing, costs, ...