After a status meeting, a client approaches you (as the project manager) with a request to incorporate an additional feature into the software your team is developing. She suggests that such a minor change can be 'absorbed' into the existing budget and schedule. You must decide whether the goodwill earned by granting the request offsets the potential risks. The pressures of such ____________ will tend to increase as the project progresses.

A Formal change control

B scope creep

C unethical stakeholders

D renegotiation