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Scope & boundaries · Web & mobile appsStock lookup apps: scope & boundaries
Define the outcome before requesting a price. Start with sample stock records and refresh intervals and plan a staff-facing availability lookup.
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The project in view
- Start with
- sample stock records and refresh intervals.
- Proposed result
- a staff-facing availability lookup.
- A decision to resolve
- cached stock being treated as live availability.
This is a planning example. It does not describe a completed client engagement.
Scope & boundaries for this project
- Choose devices and the main user task first. Decide whether browser access, offline work or device features are required.
- Use “a staff-facing availability lookup” as the proposed deliverable; confirm what is included in that description.
- Resolve this boundary early: cached stock being treated as live availability.
Questions to answer together
- Who uses the result, and what decision does it support?
- Which part of the current process is included?
- Which exceptions and adjacent tasks are excluded?
What to have at the end
A bounded scope with an owner, an intended result and explicit exclusions.
Record the decision on cached stock being treated as live availability alongside the source material. If it is still unresolved, identify who can answer it and what work depends on the answer.
Prepare your enquiry
Use this as a starting point. Add your current process, available examples and constraints before sharing.
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