I keep doing this.
For today's blog post, I set about trying to answer a question and the next thing I knew, I had begun a ridiculous sum of research that probably won't be finished for ages. This is the second time I've done this (this time about music, last time about sports) in less than a month.
Scope creep is killing me.
What is scope creep, you may ask? I confess I hadn't heard the term before beginning work, but the concept is very familiar to me, as it is what I am best at: increasing the requirements of a project once the project has begun.
Routinely I find myself in the throes of scope creep because of my natural curiosity. I'll start out with a simple question, "why are pigs pink" for instance, and before long, I've not only not answered why pigs are pink, but I've begun an increasingly complex project to quantify different types of pink, different colors of animals, different classifications of pigment.
Scope creep, according to various management experts, is something you want to avoid. And yet it's something I can't seem to get away from. No matter how small the project, (in fact, the smaller the worse) I am guaranteed to add requirements as I progress. "Oh, this would be better if I also looked into…" is a common phrase echoed in my head.
So hopefully Sunday will bring you an interesting post on something I've been wondering about in music. But if not, stay tuned. This project will at the bare minimum be finished before my sports project. The scope creep on that project has become insane. I'm making charts and graphs. That's how insane it's gotten. Stay tuned and consider this a warning to avoid scope creep in your own projects.
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