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I. Motivation
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1. What is (are) the real issue(s)?
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2. Who / what is (are) affected?
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3. What impacts does (do) the problem(s) have on those affected by it? or: What happens if nothing happens?
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II. Vision
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1. What is the ideal solution to the problem?
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2. What benefits / added value does the solution promise?
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3. Who / What benefits from the solution?
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III. Project Objective(s)
1. As a step toward achieving the Vision, what concretely do we want to achieve / accomplish?
What is (are) our project objective(s)?
Good project objective(s) = specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timeboxed (i.e., include start and end dates)
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What does "Project Success" mean to us?
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2. Strategy / approach: How do we want to / could reach our project objective(s)?
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3. What are our concrete next steps?
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