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Software Project Brief Checklist

Turn a software idea or requirement into a clearer brief without pretending every decision has already been made.

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Working checklist

Use each item as a discussion prompt. Record evidence, owners, assumptions, and unanswered questions rather than treating this as a pass/fail score.

  1. 1Problem, consequence, and intended business outcome
  2. 2Affected users, roles, locations, and representative workflows
  3. 3Current tools, systems, workarounds, and sources of truth
  4. 4In-scope and explicitly out-of-scope capabilities
  5. 5Integrations, migration, security, privacy, audit, and availability needs
  6. 6Internal decision-makers and subject-matter experts
  7. 7Target date and the reason it matters
  8. 8Procurement path, funding status, assumptions, and unresolved questions