Scope creep is the uncontrolled, slow and continuous expansion of the scope of a project or a phase, resulting in a broad, unfocused, and unmanageable scope and usually leading to cost-overruns, missed deadlines, and loss of original goals. While the gold plating is the adding more to the system than specified in the requirements by project or development team. Gold plating increases costs and reduces quality. If there is Gold plating it can indicate that integrated change control process is not working or out of control. Normally gold plating is initiated by the technical/development teams that consider adding unnecessary requirements as a value added for the customer. So gold plating results in scope creep which is a general term.

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