Scope Creep is the term that has come to mean any change in the project that was not in the original plan.  Change is constant.  To expect otherwise is simply unrealistic.  Changes occur for several reasons that have nothing to do with the ability or foresight of the customer or the project manager.  Market conditions are dynamic.  The competition can introduce or announce an upcoming new version of its product.  Your management might decide that getting to the market before the competition is necessary.  Your job as project manager is to figure out how these changes can be accommodated.  Tough job, but somebody has to do it!  Regardless of how the scope change occurs, it is your job as project manager to figure out how, if at all, you can accommodate the change.

Hope Creep is the result of a project team memeber's getting behind schedule, reporting that he or she is on schedule, but hoping to get back on schedule by the next report date.  Hope creep is a real problem for the project manager.  There will be several activity managers within your project, team members who manage a hunk of work.  They do not want to give you bad news, so they are prone to tell you that their work is proceeding according to schedule when, in fact, it is not.  It is their hope that they will catch up by the next report period, so they mislead you into thinking that they are on schedule.  The activity managers hope that they will catch up by completing some work ahead of schedule to make up the slippage.  The project manager must be able to verify the accuracy of the status reports received from the team members.  This does not mean that the project manager has to check into the details of every status report.  Random checks can be used effectively.

Effort Creep is the result of the team member's working but not making progress proportinate to the work expended.  Every one of us has worked on a project that always seems to be 95 percent complete no matter how much effort is expended to complete it.  Each week the status report records progress, but the amount of work remaining doesn't seem to decrease proportionately.  Other than random checks, the only effective thing that the project manager can do is to increase the frequency of status reporting by those team members who seem to suffer from effort creep.

Feature Creep results when the team members arbitrarily add features and functions to the deliverable that they think the customer would want to have.  The problem is that the customer didn't specify the feature, probably for good reason.  If the team member has strong feeling about the need for this new feature, formal change management procedures can be employed.

got it from Effective Project Management by Robert K. Whysocki.
i'm definitely feature creep.....
which one are you?

Hello again, it's you and me
Kinda always like it used to be
Sippin' wine, killing time
Trying to solve life's mysteries

How's your life, it's been a while
God it's good to see you smile
I see you reaching for your keys
Looking for a reason not to leave

If you don't know if you should stay
If you don't say what's on your mind
Baby just breathe
There's nowhere else tonight we should be

You wanna make a memory?

I dug up this old photograph
Look at all that hair we had.
It's bittersweet to hear you laugh
Your phone is ringing I don't wanna ask

If you go now, I'll understand
If you stay, hey, I've got a plan
We're gonna make a memory
You wanna steal a piece of time
You can sing the melody to me
And I can write a couple of lines

You wanna make a memory?

If you don't know if you should stay
And you don't say what's on your mind
Baby just breathe
There's nowhere else tonight we should be
We Should be

You wanna make a memory
You wanna steal a piece of time
You can sing the melody to me
And I can write a couple of lines

You wanna make a memory? (x2)

Good Song!

man, i need to buy a new motor.....  like now...

i actually had little bit of time before I catch a flight to L.A. (HELLO L.A. ers! call my celphone!).  What I ended up doing was looking back to the previous entries from 2003, 2004...  wow has it been already 3-4 years!?  i sure don't feel much older...  i sure don't look much older (not true)

first thing i noticed scanning over the past entries...  either i was really skinny, or i am not FAT!

I sure made some progress.  From young, stupid and reckelss college kid who didn't even know what college was....  to bit older, still stupid, but careful full-time employee at a company. 

it's interesting to see that all these years, i didn't really feel different about myself.  all these years, i felt i was always being myself.  and looking back, seeing yourself "evolve" or mature, was quite amusing.  It's like watching a boring movie..  and the only reason you are still watching is.. cuz you are the main character.

i sure spend big part of my life in Berkeley.  going through all kind of problems.  Entries that reflecting my financial difficulties, school problems, roomate issues (yes, getting drunk every night is still considered "issue").  Entries about being sick, being angry, being depressed.

I sure feel much more stable that before.  I think I enjoy life now...  as what it is
Life is Good  
Thank you everyone for being there; roomates, friends, family, and my monkey

eeek!  gata go catch my flight!

Your Beretta,

My Beretta....  BB

Here's something for your amusement,
HOW TO TAKE A CORK OUT OF A WINE BOTTLE!
click here

Endless Effort, Endless Endurance, Endless Modesty?!

"RAIN, I'm gona be all over you like an Egg on a bowl of Bi-Bim-Bap!"

BWAHAHAHHAH!!!!

April 24th ~ April 27th.    Northern Regional Meeting - Fairmont @ San Jose   * Photo Updated
April 30th ~ May 3rd       HDI Conference - Mandalay Bay @ Las Vegas   *Photo Updated
May 8th ~ May 11th        Southern Regional Meeting - Omni Hotel @ San Diego *Photo Updated

more sleeping in Hotels...

Another one checked off the list...
Rent a bike from Pier 39, then BIKE across Golden Gate Bridge,

Link for Pictures Here

CHECK!

resently, JuliOh informed me one thing she has never done...
Flying a KITE...
could you believe this woman?  never flown a kite?  i mean come on, a lot of you have flown a kite before right?  *looks around*
at least i have!  made kite with my dad and flown it send messages up the string, etc etc.
NO?!

well, we didn't get to build a kite, but we sure went out and bought one.  $10 at Target.
went out to berkeley marina and launched it.

it's funny to realize how simple thing like a kite can bring you joy..
we sat on the marina bench for about an hour, just enjoying the day, starring at our penguin, and tugging it once in awhile hoping that it higher and higher...

Flying kite with my girl? 

btw, we scooted with my Metropolitan there 40 mph, the max speed~