This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- Progressive Elaboration is the concept of refining a plan by adding details as they become known, without changing the scope baseline.

- Rolling Wave Planning is the specific technique used to implement progressive elaboration by planning near-term work in detail and future work at a high level.

- The most common exam trap is confusing Progressive Elaboration (detailing existing scope) with Scope Creep (adding new, unapproved scope).

- Rolling Wave Planning is a practical application of the Progressive Elaboration concept; one is the 'how' and the other is the 'what'.

- CAPM exam questions will use scenarios to test your ability to differentiate between these two closely related, but distinct, project management concepts.

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