The most important part of an inception—the bit that ensures that the project has a chance of success—is getting all the stakeholders together face-to-face. That means developers, customers, operations people, and management. The conversations between these people, leading to a shared understanding of the problem to be solved and the way to solve it, are the real deliverables. The list above is designed to structure the conversations so that the important issues are discussed, risks are identified, and strategies to deal with them are put in place.
