Project discovery

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🔒 Personal discovery notes.

Project and decision owner

What is difficult today? Include one concrete recent example.

What should someone be able to do after the project?

📝 Ask the questions that change scope

Ask for one recent example, who is affected, and what success would look like.

Question⇅

Why it matters⇅

Who uses the result?

Defines audience and access needs

What evidence shows the problem?

Separates a request from a demonstrated need

What must stay unchanged?

Exposes constraints

Who supplies content and approvals?

Identifies dependencies

What date matters, and why?

Distinguishes preference from a hard deadline

How will we judge success?

Makes acceptance discussable

Confirmed constraints, dependencies, and unanswered questions

Observable acceptance outcome, such as a visitor finding and submitting the correct enquiry form

📝 End with a decision

Choose the smallest next action, an owner, and a date.

📝 Capture the next agreement

What is the next stage?

Gather evidence

Prepare a bounded proposal

Pause the enquiry

Which missing fact could change the scope?

Next action: for example, supply five anonymized enquiry examples

Person responsible for that action

Agreed completion date

Client corrections or confirmation of the problem, outcome, and next action

Worked example · fictional values

Scope and proposal builder.

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Project discovery

📝 Ask the questions that change scope #

📝 End with a decision #

📝 Capture the next agreement #

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📝 Ask the questions that change scope

📝 End with a decision

📝 Capture the next agreement

➡️ Related tool