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How New Managers Can Protect Their Team From Scope Creep
New managers often struggle to shield their teams from scope creep — those last-minute requests, vague additions, and 'small asks' that quietly blow up a quarter. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the specific case of a product design team at a mid-sized B2B SaaS company that lost three weeks of roadmap time to unmanaged scope creep in Q2 2026. They walk through a concrete framework — the 'Scope Budget' — that one engineering manager used to cut unplanned work by 40 percent in two sprints. Lucas shares a memorable analogy: treating your team's capacity like a…
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