This section is comprised of the “Project Overview” section from your Problem Understanding Document, but ONLY the first paragraph and the stakeholders list/table.  To bring this content in, select the content in your Problem Understanding Document (all of it together as a single selection), copy, and select “SELECT THIS PARAGRAPH” (select the entire paragraph by triple-clicking anywhere in the paragraph).  Then paste.  The formatting, if you had it right in the Problem Understanding Document, will be correct.

Take some time to update this in case names have changed, and also to refine it based on your much better understanding of the problem at this point.  This will not take long, and will be time well spent to produce a document worthy of your hard work all year.  And at the very least, update the verb tense so it makes sense now versus before; that is, the project is complete, you are not “going to do” things (future tense), they have been done (past tense) and the solution is what it is (present tense).

Think of it this way, you are describing a scene — your situation as a team and project — as of the time you set out back then.  You do not talk about what was actually done since, that comes later.  Some examples follow:

• “Team ## was [not ‘has been’] engaged to …”; better yet, try “We were engaged to …”, using “We” instead of “Team ##” or “Our team was engaged to …”
• “Some of the primary challenges were [not ‘are’] …”
• “We set out to produce [not ‘will be producing’] a …”
• “Proving out with a more complex design was considered [not ‘would be’] ideal … but until this simple circuit was [not ‘is’] proven feasible, complexity would not [not ‘will not’] be pursued.”

Of course, do not include use italics in your formatting.

You can do this and can do it well, with just a small amount of time and a little thought.

You are now done with this section!