Most disputes start with a vague scope and a handshake. Here is how to write an SOW that both sides actually understand, so you spend less time arguing and more time shipping.
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View all posts →Clients will ask for changes. That is normal. What breaks projects is not the changes themselves, it is the lack of a process for handling them.
You do not have a client problem. You have a process problem. Here is why scope creep shows up even when everyone on both sides is reasonable.
The best time to prevent scope creep is before anyone writes a line of code. Here is what to do in the first two weeks that saves you months of headaches.
Scope creep rarely starts big. It starts with a "can we also" in a meeting and ends with 40 hours of unbilled work. Here are the patterns.
