Creep may refer to:
Project management
- Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
- Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions. Instruction creep occurs when instructions increase in number and size over time until they are unmanageable. It can be insidious and damaging to the success of large groups such as corporations, originating from ignorance of the KISS principle and resulting in over-complex (as opposed to "simplified") procedures that are often misunderstood, followed with great irritation, or ignored. This can lead to ambiguity and misunderstanding.
- KISS, an acronym for keep it simple, stupid, is a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The phrase has been associated with aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson. The term "KISS principle" was in popular use by 1970. Variations on the phrase include: "Keep it simple, silly", "keep it short and simple", "keep it simple and straightforward", "keep it small and simple", "keep it simple, soldier", or "keep it simple, sailor".
- Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission. Mission creep is the gradual or incremental expansion of an intervention, project or mission, beyond its original scope, focus or goals, a ratchet effect spawned by initial success. Mission creep is usually considered undesirable due to how each success breeds more ambitious interventions until a final failure happens, stopping the intervention entirely. The term was originally applied exclusively to military operations, but has recently been applied to many different fields. The phrase first appeared in 1993, in articles published in the Washington Post and in the New York Times concerning the United Nations peacekeeping mission during the Somali Civil War.
- Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project. Scope creep (also called requirement creep, or kitchen sink syndrome) in project management refers to changes, continuous or uncontrolled growth in a project’s scope, at any point after the project begins. This can occur when the scope of a project is not properly defined, documented, or controlled. It is generally considered harmful. It is related to but distinct from feature creep, because feature creep refers to features, and scope creep refers to the whole project.
Science
- Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses.
- Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see rail adhesion
- Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault.
- Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope.
- Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems
- Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container
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