Tactical Scope Creep In my experience, scope creep is one of the greatest threats to the completion of an iteration. I would even suggest that the most dangerous "scope creep" is the kind inflicted by engineers. Most discussions of "scope creep" tend to focus on the customer inflicted variety. For agile teams, working iteratively, this sort of strategic creep has been managed (see embracing change). The creep we don't always catch is the creep at the tactical level. Have you ever been faced with a simple story and somehow ended up making a Rube Goldberg machine ? Damn the schedule and designed a complex framework in hopes of using it again later? Regretted wasting time on a complex API that did no more than paint your project into a corner? In the end, all of these cases are examples of one thing...tactical scope creep. I myself have never fallen prey to these vices (yeah right). Seriously, I can't count the number of times I was going to write the next gr...
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