I agree with others' answers. I believe that managing scope creep while maintaining a positive and collaborative environment is challenging. Therefore, we can use some strategies. 1. Establish clear Project Objectives. 2. Implement a Rigorous Change Control Process 3. Encourage Innovation Within Constraints. Finally, we should develop an environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged. Additionally, clear boundaries, and implementing a strong change control process can minimize scope creep without mitigating the team’s enthusiasm. 

In order to avoid scope creep, one must underline objectives during the Initiating and Planning phases. This includes Objectives, Deliverables, Milestones, and Technical Requirements. All ideas need to be presented during these phases to be discussed and finalized by all the team members. If during the later part of the project lifetime someone wants to add or change the scope, the team may not agree on it, and will case unexpected delays or extra costs. After the team agrees on the scope, there can't be anymore ideas added that would change the scope. That's why it's important to discuss every part of the scope so we don't run into problems in the future. Also, monitoring stakeholder activity throughout the project is important to check if everyone is staying in scope of the project. A change control might be necessary if approved by everyone and would support the project's objective, but it can't delay or add too much cost to the project.

Setting clear objectives and assigning tasks before getting into the project can help with avoiding scope creep. In few scenarios, scope creep may be beneficial to the overall project by adding necessary steps that were not considered during the planning phase. For this reason, I would say that it may not be needed to completely avoid scope creep, but just to implement checks that ensure that the scope creep does not impede with overall progress. All projects have a budget and timeline, and too much scope creep can interfere with this, no matter how beneficial these new objectives may seem. By keeping regular communication and check ins to prioritize which objectives are important to the overall project and which ones can be left to be accomplished only if there is spare time, scope creep can be minimized to avoid slowing progress towards major project objectives. In order to determine what is needed and not needed, team members can discuss new objectives and rank them based on how closely they align with the predefined scope of the project. Although some tasks may seem like they would provide interesting or beneficial enhancement to a project, it has to be decided whether or not they are going to drain more time and resources than they are worth. By having a clear timeline for project objectives, it should be clear to team members whether or not their ambitious ideas are achievable while still remaining within the realm of the project scope and timeline.