Toward Understanding the Underlying Causes of Scope Creep

Scope Creep

Score creep has been defined in the literature as the accumulation of additional requirements and activities than originally planned on a project, with the overall result being to increased costs and change in the time estimates of a project (Madhuri et al, 2018). Wnuk and Kolly (2016) argued that scope creep is also defined as the expansion of the originally planned worked on a project with uncontrollable changes, which have been introduced once the approval of the original project plan has been received. Scope creep has been associated with project design instability and requirements volatility (Gullo, 2018), schedule delays (Turk, 2010), increase in project size and poor project quality (Thakurta, 2013), cost overruns (Amoatey & Anson, 2017), resource consumption (Nabet et al., 2017) and ultimately low project success (Komal et al., 2020).