{"id":523,"date":"2020-02-28T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:30:40","slug":"consulting-101-scope-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/28\/consulting-101-scope-creep\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulting 101 &#8211; Scope Creep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a>Scope Creep<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCan you please add a new order management screen for\ninternational orders\u2026?\u201d or \u201cCan you please write up the quarterly close process\nsince you are already doing the monthly process?\u201d There are a million ways a client\nwill ask you to do a bit more than what you signed up for. Sometimes these are\njust different interpretations of the original requirement and sometimes they\nare completely new requests. One way or another, they grow your scope and they\nwill impact your timelines. It can be very hard to catch this early on,\nespecially in the early phases with new clients. Scope creep is one of the\nmajor reasons a project will go over time and over budget. Catching scope creep\nis an easier task when major items are being added or changed in flight, but it\nis the small ones that sneak under the radar that you need to watch out for. Doing\nsmall changes every now and then can add up to a lot of extra time and effort\nspent in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are  you interested in starting a career in consulting? Be sure to read the full book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38wE3AO\">Jack of all Trades Master of Some; An Introduction to Consulting<\/a> available on Amazon.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scope Creep \u201cCan you please add a new order management screen for international orders\u2026?\u201d or \u201cCan you please write up the quarterly close process since you are already doing the monthly process?\u201d There are a million ways a client will ask you to do a bit more than what you signed up for. Sometimes these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-consulting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofalltradesmasterofsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}