Project Management Professional PMP · Free Practice Question Medium
Question 29
Maria is a project manager and she is nearing the end of the GHY Project. Joseph, a project team member, reports that he’ll be done with the final project tasks in the next two days. Maria is reviewing the project budget and she realizes that there is $28,000 still left in the project budget. She decides that she will add several features to the project that the customer isn’t expecting as a surprise. These features will make the product more attractive and will definitely add value to the finished product. She confers with the project team and they agree they can complete these features by the project deadline. What best describes this scenario?
- A Scope validation
- B Gold plating
- C Scope creep
- D Value-added change
Reveal correct answer
Correct answer: B
Explanation
When the project manager adds features to the project that were not asked for or approved only because there are funds available for the project, as in this case, it is called gold plating. It is wasteful as the customer didn’t request the additions. The changes have also bypassed integrated change control, so this is poor project management.Discussion
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