15 years of IT consulting culminated into 3 sentences.

Before every IT project, make the team fill these blanks:

The mission of this project is to <deliverable>
in order to <value>.

This project is driven by the visions of <upstream stakeholder>,
influenced by the wishes of <downstream stakeholder>,
and constrained by the requirements of <sideline stakeholder>.

We know we have been successful if <outcome>,
as measured by <output>.