You are currently the project manager for a software development project, developing a next generation data-mining tool?

 Your team is developing a new software product that will help customers better manage large volumes of data, especially for data reporting purposes. Midway through the project your customers has asked you to add additional reporting functionality to the software, specifically to correlate sales data across multiple geographic regions based on time. The functionality was NOT part of the original project plan. This is an example of which of the following?

A. Scope creep

B. Fast tracking

C. Gold plating

D. Inadequate project planning

E. Crashing the schedule