TPO 44 - Question 4
Scope Creep
Businesses that perform services or carry out projects for clients generally come to an agreement with their clients about the extent or scope of a project before beginning the project. However, as a project progresses, clients may ask for more than the business originally expected to provide, and the scope of the project may grow larger than intended. This phenomenon is known as scope creep, and it can cause conflict between businesses and their clients. Scope creep is especially common when the terms or conditions of the initial agreement are not clearly defined, and a client may expect more than the business had planned to provide.
Explain how the example in the lecture illustrates the concept of scope creep.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 575.0 592.248995984 97% => OK
No of words: 139.0 155.574297189 89% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.13669064748 3.80514564318 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43363162301 3.525876923 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.93119577095 1.79077849142 108% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 93.7148594378 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.676258992806 0.604071249207 112% => OK
Syllable count: 174.6 185.844578313 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0890010079316 0.0650381309087 137% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 139.0 68.503853103 203% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.52 25.9943957902 229% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.0642570281 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.34375 4.02192344571 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.71323119904 3.1217529195 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7975 1.45093177766 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.33935852183 0.99851816184 134% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 39.0421686747 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.27 7.12997991968 116% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.275666666667 0.185688545393 148% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.182312613082 0.155154303396 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.08 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.345899280576 0.305395592593 113% => OK
STD word duration: 0.17574430801 0.189427763521 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.48 6.2937751004 119% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.41 3.39508032129 42% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.52 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.992 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.504032258065 0.656000678711 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.33534946237 2.60215298798 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.57930107527 1.56821927147 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.95507487521 1.99336655568 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.339481115108 0.317803793328 107% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.