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scope creep
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The continual enhancement of the requirements of a project as the system is being constructed. Scope creep occurs frequently in information systems development and is often responsible for going way over budget when the changes occur in the coding and testing stages rather than in the early design stages.

It seems to be the nature of humans to not be able to figure it all out at the start. Today's systems are exceedingly complex. Refinements often come during the latter stages, because users, analysts and programmers have gained more experience with the transactions and functions as well as the problems and initial solutions. "Rome wasn't built in a day!" See prototyping.



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Based on our experience with AIS, an addendum to this risk is as follows: a fundamental risk within the rapid deployment capability process is rapid requirements creep within a given execution year in which scarce resources were pulled together at the eleventh hour for the RDC in the first place.
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Traditionally, if you look at the DAPA [Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Project] Report, the QDR [Quadrennial Defense Review], the CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies] Report, the Defense Science Board reports, you learn that big drivers in terms of cost growth and schedule delays are the fact that technology has to come into the mainstream prematurely and that requirements creep has escalated in inordinate ways.
 
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