Scope documents
I think working for the federal government may have killed my mind. I wasn't sure what to write for the scope document so I ended up googleing one and picked a template from the department of agriculture, just to have a starting point.
The final document doesn't resemble the starting point at all, but it was nice to have that safety net to fall back on. As a contractor to the fed, they have templates and forms for everything. In some respects it makes it very easy to knock out a document in a short timeframe, and makes it easy to convey information in a particular fashion.
This is something we may want to consider in the digital humanities A set of templates for documents that we will need to submit for grants, project proposals, etc. if nothing else it enforces a set level of professionalism and a standard for document submission.
Just a thought.