Influence of domain and technology upon scope creep in software projects

Project management strategies play an influencing role in accomplishment of project success. A successful project alone can attain total customer satisfaction and withholding the industry in the market. Scope creep is deemed to be one of the several factors which influence the success of the project. Our research has proven that there are various factors which make an impact on scope creep. This paper put forth a case study carried out in leading software industries in order to realize the impact of domain and technology on scope creep. The investigation is carried out on various projects which are developed either in retail or pharmaceuticals domain. Retail projects are developed using Java and J2EE and the pharmaceutical projects are developed in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence technology. Knowledge of impact of domain and technology upon scope creep certainly ensures one baseline their requirement specifications such that it reduces the scope creep associated overheads. It further accelerates quality of projects and productivity of the company.