Guidelines for Statement of Work

Due: Th 01/31/2013

Our Statement of Work (SOW) will serve as the contract between you (the designers) and the instructors (the clients). It will set the scope of the work to be performed, expectations, deliverables, responsibilities of each party, time-frame, and cost.

Items you should consider including in your Statement of Work:

• Purpose - provide concise statement of project's goal and expected result.
• Scope - describe how you will accomplish project's goal to include overall strategy and major efforts/components.
• Schedule - outline major activities, inter-dependencies, and milestones, with dates.
• Constraints and Assumptions - describe limiting factors (e.g., business-related such as available budget, time and resources, or technical such as software, hardware and standards to be met) and assumptions (e.g., availability of funds, parts provided, access to laboratories and equipment, and other dependencies) made in planning project and writing statement of work.
• Success Criteria - define standards (project's requirements a good start) by which the project will be judged successful.
• Cost - summarize anticipated expenses and budget provided.

Note this document should be succinct and on the order of five pages or less.