Project Training & Consulting
Remove "scope creep"
from your vocabulary.
Get the first 20% right and scope creep will no longer be incorrectly documented as the cause of your:
- ✕ Budget overruns
- ✕ Missed schedules
- ✕ Missed project value forecasts
Instead, you’ll understand the underlying issues — so you can actually solve them.
Scope creep is often seen as the culprit of some of your worst project challenges, but it’s often the symptom of deeper issues during the first 20% of the project.
— Jeff Panning, PMP, ACPStop blaming scope creep — Start getting the first 20% right.
Here's the secret
The final 80% of every project is shaped by the first 20%.
Teams rush past stakeholder identification and requirements capture to get to the "real work" — the execution stage, the interesting stuff.
Then somewhere around go-live, people you didn’t know existed show up with questions nobody anticipated. Sound familiar?
After 39 years leading IT projects, I've watched this play out more times than I can count. The mess isn’t created at go-live. It’s baked in from day one.
Get the front end right — do the work in the first 20% — and the words "scope creep" will disappear from your vocabulary.
See the Training
Get the first 20% right and the remaining 80% has a chance. Skip it and you spend the back half managing a mess that was baked in from day one.
Training & Workshops
The work that happens
before execution.
60-Minute Session or Custom Workshop
Requirements Capture & Scope Development
Get to the root of what customers really need. Often it's not what they request.
60-Minute Session or Custom Workshop
Stakeholder Analysis & Engagement
The stakeholder who derails your project in month six was there in month one. Find them first.
60-Minute Session or Custom Workshop
Kickoff for Alignment
Stop running kickoffs that create the illusion of alignment. Build shared foundations that actually hold.
60-Minute Session or Custom Workshop
Reflect to Learn
Move beyond "what went wrong" to build organizational learning habits that compound over time.
60-Minute Session or Custom Workshop
Flexible Leadership Styles
Grounded in the Cynefin framework — diagnose complexity and adapt your leadership style to fit the environment.
About Jeff
I've seen this movie before.
"You will eventually find all your stakeholders and capture all their requirements. The only question is when."
I’m Jeff Panning — PMP, ACP, and 39-year IT project veteran. I facilitate PMI’s Requirements Capture & Scope Development course and speak at PMI chapters and organizations nationwide.
My mission is simple: help project managers, PMOs, and businesses eliminate scope creep as the cause of budget overruns, missed schedules, and missed project value forecasts — by getting the first 20% of the project right.
Ready to start?
Want to remove "scope creep" from your vocabulary?
Our first conversation isn’t about me pitching you a solution. It’s about asking the right questions to understand what’s actually driving the chaos. Reach out at jeff@jeffpanning.com