Managing Scope

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This is a guide to reeling in your project’s scope.

Often, Oasis projects start as big dreams, but by halfway through you realize you aren’t as far along as you had hoped. This isn’t something to stress about, it’s just something to work from.

A “Typical” Oasis project tends to have a roadmap that looks like this:

By halfway, this is what progress tends to look like:

So what’s the solution? To narrow your scope down to what your original focus was when you joined Oasis.

Think about features which are essential to your app demonstrating what you wanted to achieve. If your app was a social media app, maybe it means not doing comments and just doing posts. If your app was a game, maybe it means remove the networking and playing it all locally. If you’re a CS major, maybe it means just using deodorant and forgoing a whole shower.

After cutting down to the essential features, your project should look a little more achievable:

Now it’s time to focus on those few remaining features you’re yet to get to:

You’ve got this!!