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1.5 Scoping the Project

Category: Best Practice Guides

Successful projects are those that deliver early positive results – “quick wins” – that generate enthusiasm amongst users and sponsors alike for the next stage. However, separating the planning process, with its many interdependencies, into self-contained, staged deliverables can be fraught with difficulties.  Indeed, there is rarely even consensus regarding how the whole process fits together in the first place.  In the fifth of a series of six articles, Steve Bows picks his way through the maze of design considerations and presents a few guiding principles for those following.