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Here is the template we use for almost every scope we write. Three pages. Forty-five minutes.
Page one: what we agreed
A single paragraph in plain English describing the thing being built. Not in vendor-language, in the language the client used on the call.
Other writing.
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How we write a 3-page scope instead of a 30-page SOW
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