The whiteboard template [1] has a section called "scope", which is a pretty ambiguous term. The way I see it, the scope defines the qualities our final design should have. For example, the scope on the whiteboard template states that the final whiteboard template design should be "Easy to browse through," feature "Terse phrases", and have a "Space for multiple proposals", and shouldn't feature sections for tracking development (as a design whiteboard is for fleshing out design ideas). The scope is tricky because, if you're not careful, you can easily introduce unwanted constraints. For example, I could have easily put "Section for Scope" under the scope of the whiteboard, but that would rule out all the proposals with an alternative to scope, such as those that incorporate the scope into the summary, or such as those with "Goals" and "Non-goals", or "Musts", "Wishes", and "Restrictions", etc. If I knew that the whiteboard template should definitely have some place for the qualities that the final design should have, I should have put something like "Required qualities of the final design" under the Scope section.
If you can't think of qualities for the scope, leave it blank -- it's for the better. If you can't think of what to put in the "Out of Scope" section, you might want to put in something that seems blatantly obvious to you, like "Be able to ban community participation" on a whiteboard template whiteboard. So my final definition for scope is this: "A list of qualities the final design should have. The scope should be broad enough to restrict proposals as little as possible." [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Whiteboard_Template -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
