The HBR Guides Collection (8 Books) (HBR Guide Series)

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but they also haven’t derailed the plan by introducing

new activities or changing boundaries. Now that you’re

closing the project, it’s time to review this list so you can

create follow-on proposals for your stakeholders. This

technique can be effective when a team prepares to hand

off a project to itself because stakeholders may be more

likely to accept the deliverables if they know they’ll have

the opportunity to tweak them later. I’ve used the scope

creep parking lot on several software-development proj-

ects. In each case, although minor issues were found dur-

ing user-acceptance testing, the projects could close be-

cause we worked ...