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What is a clarification brief?
A short artifact that separates what is known from what is assumed from what is still an open question, produced when a raw request is shaped into a demand.
The split matters because a request written in one confident voice makes an assumption indistinguishable from a fact, and every downstream estimate then inherits it. The assumptions list is also a risk register before you have one.
Related terms
- Demand — A work request that has entered the delivery lifecycle — the unit a delivery governance system tracks from intake to decision.
This definition comes from building DeliverySheet — it takes a vague work request to a clear delivery decision, so the shape, owner, capacity, dependencies and open questions are on the table before anyone commits people or a date.