Inspired by the work shared on Evaluation as a service: assessing stakeholder requests for agile teams. Thank you to James for sharing.

Why start this project?

What problem are you trying to solve?

[Problem statement – top 3 pain points, and risks of not addressing it]

How is the problem being solved now?

Current solutions by public, private or 3rd sector

Informal workarounds (and its risks)

What is your opportunity, and what is it trying to achieve?

[What is the opportunity about?], 

[What is the added value of the opportunity proposed?]  

[Outcomes and benefits to users and the Civll Service]

Important context

[Include contextual information/notes regarding the RAG or the scores of the frameworks (ie. category not yet considered, assessment in early stages, category not relevant for this opportunity, etc.)]

Urgency and dependencies

[Deadlines: detail timeframes] 

[Dependencies: detail tasks that require inputs from internal/external Teams, including any approaches agreed (e.g. 3rd party integration)

What is the strategic fit?

[What strategies does this fit with?]

Why stop the project?

What would tell us we should stop?

Who are the users?

Who will use it internally?

• [Who, how many, any key attributes]

Who will use it externally?

Who will not use it?

Who won't use it?

What does success look like?

How will you know if you have solved the problem?

KPIs, measures of success

Who will use it externally?

What could mean you don't succeed?

What could get in the way?

[Risks]

What will we create?

Showstoppers

If it can't do this we should stop working on it

Must haves

Should haves

What will we not create or solve?

What problems are we not solving and what features are we not building?

How will we work?

Who's involved

Roles and responsibilities, who decides?

How do we communicate?

With each other and with interested stakeholders

What ceremonies do we have?

How will this work carry on to the next phases?

How won't we work?

How won't we work?

When will things happen by?

When will we deliver releases?

Other when questions

When won't things happen?

When won't we be doing things?