noun
A condition in which one or more people, often in the form of a committee, progressively increase the scope and
complexity of a project until the project is deemed infeasible and subsequently cancelled to the detriment of all involved.
Such projects are typically of a technical nature. Likewise someone who commits creeping featurism is most likely to be an engineer or
otherwise technically advanced but not business minded.
Although
market research showed that a second factory would be profitable, once the
engineering department became involved, creeping
featurism set in and it was self-evident that an additional plant was not a viable idea.