I despise scope creep with every part of my being. To me, scope creep is com­pa­ra­ble to nails on a chalk board, or having my hand slammed in a door again and again and again. It is the ruiner of projects, prod­ucts, and I’m sure I could find some way to tie it into how Rock and/or Roll music is obvi­ously ruin­ing soci­ety. It takes what would in most cases be a solid project, a solid time line, and solid analy­sis, and tosses them all to the winds.

A quick, simple, and gen­er­al­ized def­i­n­i­tion: Scope Creep is when some­one (your­self or oth­er­wise) adds new func­tion­al­ity, fea­tures, or other addi­tions while still expect­ing your project/product/whatever to still be due by the same time.