How to Handle Scope Creep in Client Projects

In this quick video, I address a common issue many face in client projects: scope creep.
If you're unfamiliar with the term, scope creep occurs when clients request additional features or changes outside the initial project agreement. This can lead to more work and potential conflicts.
I share my approach to managing scope creep effectively by embracing client changes while protecting your time and resources. Key points include:
- This includes a section on changes and revisions in your project agreement.
- Being flexible but setting clear boundaries and cost implications for additional work.
- Using plain English contracts to make terms understandable for clients.
I also recommend the "Contract Killer" template, simplifying legal jargon and improving client understanding and conversion rates. Check out the link below for more details.
- Contract Killer Template: stuffandnonsen...
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[@theplaintech]

Useful and sensible. Thank you.

[@paultitmuss]

Brilliant! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and more importantly how you are dealing with this. As a web design and marketing agency, we get this all of the time and it is very easy to just keep adding more time and energy into a project, which wasn't in the original scope, just to keep the client happy and to move on. This way, it does give both parties an opportunity to gain from the situation - we get the opportunity to earn for what we do, based on unpredicted additional work and the client gets a more bespoke service based upon their existing scope and any other ideas that they may have had since the first proposal.

[@WPTuts]

Exactly! My original approach was to lock everything down and try to cover every eventuallity and it was exhausting and frustrating for me and the prospective client. This method gives flexibility and the ability for scope creep to actually be beneficial and not a constant headache. :)

[@amrfarrouh]

I loved the changes and revisions section in your agreement or contract, Thank you for sharing this.

[@andrewdowniephd]

Brilliant. Thanks for this.

[@danstevens1974]

thanks Paul - just made the purchase - looks great!

[@WPTuts]

@@danstevens1974 let me know if you find it useful. It’s been a god send for me over the years.

[@danstevens1974]

@@WPTuts i've been meaning to get something like this for years - currently i just do agreements over email, which as you can imagine, are not particularly robust and lead to exactly what you lay out in the video - Scope Creep!

[@WPTuts]

@@danstevens1974 I've also found it incredibly useful using Better Proposals (which I got on AppSumo years ago) to get everything digitally signed for added piece of mind. :)

[@Jason_1010]

Is the Contract Killer setup a kind of Termageddon type thing? would be handy to preview their docs really.

[@WPTuts]

Termageddon is a live platform that will update your site's legal pages as new laws and legislation emerge worldwide. The Contract killer is a web design contract template you can use as is or modify as needed. I have no experience with any other documents they have listed on the site.

[@Jason_1010]

@@WPTuts Ah o,, thanks Paul, that clarifies 🙂

[@nmg2023nmg]

Does it come in swedish?

[@jamessowerscom]

Is contract killer just the same thing as contract monster?

[@WPTuts]

@@jamessowerscom no, they are different things. Very different pricing too.

[@jamessowerscom]

@@WPTuts Oh you're right, very different pricing, haha. I forgot how much I paid for Monster...

[@PswACC]

What is WPTuts Academy?

[@WPTuts]

wptutsacademy.com/