Out Items record topics that are out of the scope of the project. This is useful for project inception and for reference in the future.
Description
Out items record topics that are out of scope of your project. To document them is useful for project inception and for later reference.
Scopes in agile projects may change quickly. Therefore it is helpful to recognize the current context for your decisions.
Properties
The document type out item does not provide type-specific properties.
Sections
The template provides the following sections to provide information about an out item.
Description
Describe the item that is not part of the project goals.
Summary
A summary on the out item, if it is broken in large number of subitems.
Subordinate Items
This allows to subdivide the item into several items, each described in its own document.
Justification
Explain why the item is not part of the project goals.
Notes
These are internal notes that are usually not exported and only visible to team members with write access.
But this is not a safe place to store sensible information. It is just a convenience for the reader to not be bothered with notes stored here for the authors for later use. The security level is about suppressing the representation by a CSS style. Therefore consider this as a convenience for the reader, not as a security tool.
References
For a document the references section contains pointers to resources that prove the statements of the document.
Often these proofs are not easily distinguishable from further information. In this case you may want to skip the reference section in favour for the resource list.
Resources
The resources section provides references to further information to the topic of the document.
This may be information on the internet provided by the resource or information in the team's information systems. Anything the reader of the resource might want to know, may be listed here.
