This site is for musings and contributions on the "Accidental Profession", project management. One of the key concepts of this field is "scope creep". As part of my business I have been traveling to France, so I just went ahead and differentiated by calling it scope crêpe . Hope you find it to be tasty!
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Scope Crepe Taste Travels through the Terrain of Project Management
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{EAV_BLOG_VER:48c13a047a629558}Most of my recent blog posts have been put on our EarthPM site.We also now blog for Projects at Work.Visit those two links above and you can keep up with me more regularly.Just to see if you're all paying attention, I may still blog here on general PM topics from time
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