Have you ever been on a project with seemingly no end in sight? The sponsor or stakeholders keep adding ‘just one more thing.’ The requirements grow and grow. Eventually it becomes too big to manage, or your budget and timeline are blown.

If this sounds familiar you too have been a victim of scope creep!

You’ve done your due diligence; you compared platforms and features, figured out the licensing, landed the budget and maybe even defined your team, created the project plan and set a deadline.  Nothing left to do but to do it, right?  Maybe.  How would you answer the following questions?

• Do you know why the business is changing platforms (hopefully)? Does everyone else?  (Hint: 'We want to move to the cloud' is not a solid reason)
• In the age of too many tools, have you created your strategy for training and governance around what tools will be used for which tasks?
• Have you taken a good look at current processes to identify gaps and redundancies?
• Do you have a solid strategy to get your Help Desk ready to support employees?

If you don’t like all your responses to those questions, you’re not alone.  Below are some of the more common assumptions that we’ve witnessed trip up the best intended roll outs.