Talk:Statement of work/Archives/2011

The original

yes the original article was just noise. But I can make a sub-stub out of it Papeschr 08:13, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

First link does not work as of 3/4/07

The first external link cited on this page (http://pmpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Statement_of_Work) does not work as of 3/4/07. It results in a "404 Not Found" message by the host server. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.88.168.35 (talk) 18:30, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

External Links

Statement of Work (SOW) Writing Guide for RFP's [1] --74.15.168.84 (talk) 21:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Statement of Work Template for Creating and Designing Websites[http://www.webwildcatting.com/) or [http://www.webwildcatting.com/scofwote.html} —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbvanhorn (talk • contribs) 12:54, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Potential topics

This article might be strengthened—some thoughts follow:

Statement of Work (SOW) overview

1. The role of the SOW in contracting
2. Deliverables: specifying products
3. Request for Proposal (RFP) and other solicitations: the role of the SOW to the RFP
4. Typical problems with SOWs

Structuring the work to be performed

1. Identifying and specifying discrete work packages
2. Management overhead costs
3. Work breakdown structure: establishing the relationship between the work in the SOW and the overall project work
4. Organizational breakdown structure: establishing the relationship between the buyer and the seller
5. Key personnel in managing work using SOWs (the contracting officer and the contracting officers' technical representative)

Preparing the SOW

1. Standard elements in a SOW
2. Specifying deliverables
3. Quality checks for the SOW

Statement of Work: the role of the SOW in managing the contract

1. Payment process:
2. Change control: revisions to the SOW
3. Conflict: resolving disputes
4. Closure: closing out the contract

Copyright

Looks like parts of this are taken from 'Local public financial management' By Anwar Shah (C) the World Bank See the middle of page 85 for an improbably direct match. Unless they copied Wikipedia. This probably needs investigating. --78.146.144.212 (talk) 21:28, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Another possible source of "Information Technology, Project Management, Fifth Edition" Kathy Schwalbe, pg. 504 Chapter 12 was listed here. This article has been listed for further investigation. VernoWhitney (talk) 23:55, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia text pre-dates the WB book, at the very least. The language was introduced with this edit and the way it was introduced seems to be rather indicative of a Wikipedia origin. Schwalbe's 5th edition is also older than the edit above. MLauba ^(Talk) 08:55, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

The Shah text actually has an attribution of that content to the Wikipedia article. I'm not clear for which part of the text Schwalbe is being imputed as the author, but it looks like a fairly generic SOW outline. Numerous PMBOK trained project management writers could have spewed the same thing with trivial variations, e.g. here.

Most of the literature in the field derives from NHB 5600.2, the NASA Handbook for Statements of Work that guided the Apollo Program, although the Project Management Institute has made an effort to render the ideas proprietary. While it differs in form, this is a later derivative from 1997.LeadSongDog come howl! 20:09, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I've restored the content pending some further showing that this is a copyright problem, but I will leave the copyright examination request for now. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:24, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Regardless, this article could benefit from some solid references.68.122.51.169 (talk) 02:00, 23 April 2011 (UTC)