Scope creep rarely starts big. It starts with a "can we also" in a meeting and ends with 40 hours of unbilled work. Here are the patterns.
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View all posts →Clients will ask for changes. That is normal. What breaks projects is not the changes themselves, it is the lack of a process for handling them.
You do not have a client problem. You have a process problem. Here is why scope creep shows up even when everyone on both sides is reasonable.
The best time to prevent scope creep is before anyone writes a line of code. Here is what to do in the first two weeks that saves you months of headaches.
Most agencies skip change requests because the process feels too heavy. Here is a lightweight version that takes five minutes per request and saves hours of arguments.
