You can develop a scope or opportunity statement that best describes what is the objective of your team project, and what is not. It sets the scene, identifies the boundaries of the project under development and should be clear and concise. An opportunity statement is used to gain joint understanding about the opportunity at hand. It should consider the full life cycle of the opportunity from feasibility via execution and operation to potentially abandonment.

Characteristics of a good opportunity statement are that:

• • Everyone in the team can relate to it,
  • it should open the opportunity wide enough for investigation of creative alternatives (is not limited to a single solution),
  • it does not lump many separate issues into one, has a clear focus instead,
  • it has at least one number or date to give it a bit of scale and last but not least it should be appealing and inviting.