Month: July 2025

Scopes of Work

I’ve been programming professionally for 20 years, and there is one elusive document that still escapes me: the scope of work.

I have seen them… just rarely. There have been Bills of Materials wearing the SOW name tag, but open them up, and it’s just a parts list. Usually I gather scraps of information from meetings and phone calls and jot them down in a notes.txt file that lives with the other project documentation. It’s not great but it’s something, and plain text will outlive all of us.

I’ve written previously about the need for proper documentation to program “correctly,” and I stand behind those words. How can we hope to end up in the right place without a map to where we’re going?

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