Sam's requirements for a scope statement:Abstract: What problem are we solving, who ill it benefit and how
will they take advantage of it?
Problem: How do things work today? Why is this not optimal? What
customer needs are there?
All user that are issued an MIT Athena Kerberos principal are also provisioned with an MIT email account and an AFS directory. When using the Athena computing environment the AFS home directory also serves as the user's home directory. AFS also serves as a backing store for WEB.MIT.EDU. This means that users have a very convenient way of publishing static web pages, if they have access to an AFS client.
Since AFS commands a relatively small market share, in the world at large, an AFS client is not a standard part of any operating system distribution. New operating system releases sometimes arrive with no client support. These cause an obsticle to easy access to AFS for some users. Many MIT users spend at least part of their time working on machines that do not have an AFS client installed. This makes AFS less useful for easily publishing static HTML pages or general purpose file sharing among collaborators.
AFS has also ended up as a critical path item on some projects. For example, some project deployments have been delayed until AFS issues for a particular platform have been resolved. MIT's IS&T has occasionally
Also, Solution: A brief outline of the solution.
How customers will use the solution; how it ]solves there problem;
what properties of the solution are important to it being useful to the customer?
Interactions: How does this solution interact with other work that the customer is doing, that we're doing elsewhere and that other parts of the organization are doing.
Positioning: How do we want to position this project? Who is it
useful to? Where would it not be a good fit?
Long term strategy: How does this fit into our long-term goals? What future work can we build on this?
Marketing requirements: What work do we propose to do? Give specific requirements that are necessary for the work to be useful to the customers.
Project plan: resources, timelines etc.