Question

After Analyze the monitoring plan and the Control mechanisms used in a (Water and diesel transportation projects) :

Are you facing scope creep?
- What are its causes?

Answer 1

Scope creep is an great fear to any project and leads to wastage of resources, loss of money, time and sometimes uncontrollable situations.

Yes, scope creep is present in water and diesel transportation projects. There may be following causes for this:

1. Poor requirement analysis:

It is related with not having proper market research before project planning further steps. This may lead to future increased cost, and chances of less profits and more deviations. In the particular project the area may be ignored while evaluating the factors are demand and supply in different areas, taxes imposed for inter and intra state, normal and abnormal losses while loading and unloading etc.

2.Complexity of the project:

A project may be complex than someone thought. Water and diesel transportation project may involve different complex situations like hiring genuine transportation company which may not cheat with the materials, dynamic government changing rules and regulations or reforms etc.

3. Lack of control:

There may be possibility that there are no more control techniques available because of more deviations have been arisen beyond the control limit.

4. Demand and supply situation:

There might be a scenario that demand at the different depots and different consumers market or supply at transportation factories have not been properly analysed.