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 Terms of reference - BOSCARD Acronym
Author:'o-Dzin Tridral
Date:Friday, 14th Jun 2002 11:00
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A long time ago, in a job far far away (well, Bristol actually) I was introduced to the idea of a 'tersm of Reference'. This was one side of A4 which neatly explained a project, role, piece of work etc.

The headings used were Background, Objectives, Scope, Constraints, Assumptions, Reporting, Deliverables, hence 'BOSCARD'

I would like to know where this particular formulation comes from, whether it is an accepted standard, and if there are guidelines for the content of each section. Are there alternative ways of creating a 'terms of reference' document?

A search for the terms Background, Objectives, Scope etc, did return a number of pages which seemed to use this arrangement, but none which explained its origins or described the content of each part.

many thanks,

'o-Dzin

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  Terms of reference - BOSCARD Acronym
A long time ago, in a job far far away (well, Bristol actually) I was introduced to the idea of ...
'o-Dzin Tridral 14/06/02 11:00 18234
   Re: Terms of reference - BOSCARD Acronym
Hi, I used to work for Cap Gemini, called Hoskyns in the UK. Around 1991 I worked closely with the technical ...
Jeremy O'Connor 30/10/02 10:32 20670
    Re: Terms of reference - BOSCARD Acronym
I took part in a four-week training course run by QA Training (formerly part of Cap Gemini, I believe) in ...
Matt K 31/10/02 13:13 20694
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Try looking here http://tuffley.hispeed.com/tcs20012sample.htm and there may be some other links you can follow.
Yin Trebert 27/06/02 12:46 18518

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