The importance of understanding scopeThe key scoping questionsScoping question 1 – What is the overall objective of the project?Scoping question 2 – What are the deliverables?Subsidiary question 2a – Are there deliverables required by the project which it is explicitly not responsible for?Subsidiary question 2b – Are you working to deliver a finite set of deliverables or provide some business capability?Subsidiary question 2c – Are you working to deliver a set of independent deliverables or an integrated end-to-end solution?Subsidiary question 2d – How will the quality of deliverables be determined?Scoping question 3 – Are you working to implement a specific solution, or to solve a problem?Subsidiary question 3a – Are you responsible for the delivery of deliverables or for achieving the business benefits?Scoping question 4 – How is the customer going to measure success at the end of the project?Scoping question 5 – What, from the customer’s viewpoint, can flex?Subsidiary question 5a – Do you want predictability or speed?Scoping question 6 – Are there any other constraints on the project?Subsidiary question 6a – Are there any currently known issues, risks or opportunities?Subsidiary question 6b – Are there any external considerations?Scoping question 7 – How does your customer want to work with you?Subsidiary Question 7a – How will decisions be made on the project?Subsidiary question 7b – Can your sponsor allocate all the resources the project requires or do other stakeholders need to be involved?Subsidiary question 7c – How high is the project in your customer’s overall priorities?Subsidiary question 7d – Who can legitimately put requirements upon the project?Scoping question 8 – Are there any implicit requirements, assumptions or needs that the customer has that are not defined in the scope or requirements documents?