Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is creating a quarterly business review deck out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Assembling a presentation deck is unrelated to a build's technical deliverables.
This occasionally comes up on longer builds when a client's internal stakeholders want a formal update, and the request for "a deck" lands with the dev team by default since they're the ones with the status.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Formatting progress into a presentation deck is unrelated to implementation work — a status update and a polished internal-facing deck are different deliverables.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — Presentation-deck creation is excluded from a development scope's technical deliverables.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
I can send a written progress summary anytime, but putting that into a formal presentation deck for internal stakeholders is outside the development scope.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags presentation-deck requests outside_scope on development contracts, distinguishing them from the status updates a build typically includes.