Week 6 -Managing Ongoing Projects

What specific scope creep issues occurred?

The only thing that comes to mind is something that occurred in my personal life.

My scope creep would be our Christmas family vacation to Disneyland. We started this family tradition about three years ago, one year after the passing of my hubby. He passed away right before Christmas in 2006. We chose this particular tradition to essentially to get through the holidays in one piece emotionally, which has worked so far. Another important factor is because, Disneyland is dubbed, “the happiest place on earth.”
I tend to be more organized in my professional life opposed to my personal life. I write out lists of what I need to do for work, but I neglect to this in my personal life. This is why my vacations never go as planned as far as bringing my family’s personal items, such as toothpaste, shampoo, etc. It is as if my brain turns to mush the instant my vacation begins. Because I forget my family’s personal items, this means that I must head to the local Target instead of going into the park as soon as we arrive. I mentioned that I do not make lists for anything pertaining to my personal life, right?. I end up going to Target again, because I forgot items that I originally set out to purchase.

How did you or other stakeholders deal with those issues at the time?

My stakeholder in my example instance is my 21-year-old son. My son normally takes one of his friends on vacation with us, but they bring their own personal items.

My son becomes frustrated with me, because instead of going into the park after our arrival, I have to run to Target. He laughs with me when I inform him that I had to run to Target again. He shakes his head and states that me going to Target has become another family tradition.

Looking back on the experience now, had you been in the position of managing the project, what could you have done to better manage
these issues and control the scope of the project?

I need to incorporate some of my professional organizational skills into my personal life. I should start writing lists in my every day personal life, as this has become a bad habit more than anything. I could attribute this to a habit that possibly cannot be broken