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Choose a Focus: Define Work You Provide and Work You Decline

Summary

Learn to choose a business focus using need, delivery effort, and capability, define service boundaries, and review a trial through actual request records.

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Choose a Focus by Need, Cost, and Delivery Capability

Choose a focus using customer need, delivery cost, and actual capability. Scope can be adjusted without accepting every request or committing everything to one product.

Define provided and declined work from current records and test the focus over a set period.

Connect Requests with Delivery Effort

Record requests, effort, and follow-up. GOV.UK’s discovery investigates problems to inform what should be built. (GOV.UK: Discovery)

Assess deliverable work alongside request volume.

Define Scope and Exception Decisions

State included and additional work, estimating cost and capabilities for new requests.

Define a trial period and review date rather than leaving scope indefinitely fixed.

Record Results and Update the Offer

Record completions, effort, and declined requests. Repair explanations that fail to reach relevant people.

Publish actual service scope and intake boundaries.

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Frequently asked questions

Q: Must focus mean one product?

A: Define scope from need, cost, and capability.

Q: Should popularity alone decide focus?

A: Compare request volume with delivery effort.

Q: How should new requests be assessed?

A: Estimate capability and cost before deciding exceptions.

Q: How should a focus trial be evaluated?

A: Use completions, effort, and declined requests.

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