Scope creep
Manager level. All phrases
| Means | The project keeps growing and nobody changed the deadline. |
|---|---|
| Lands | When you need to push back on new requests without sounding difficult. |
| Backfires | When you say it to the person paying for the project in the tone of an accusation. |
Teams: Flagging some scope creep here. The dashboard wasn't in the original brief.
Try it yourself. Drills give you a plain sentence to rewrite with this kind of phrase, then score how corporate you sound. Start training.
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