Boundaries

If we tried to act beyond this point, what would stop us?

Questions

Scope

What did the request define as a boundary?

• What is explicitly included?
• What is explicitly excluded?

Authority

The limits of our ability to make decisions.

• Where does our mandate stop?
• What requires approval?
• Who provides approval?

Organizational

Which groups we can work with and which we cannot.

• Which groups are involved?
• Which groups are not involved?
• Can we engage with uninvolved groups? Under what conditions?
• Are there cultural or political boundaries?

Physical

Where in space we can operate.

• Are there restrictions to where we can go?
• Are there restrictions on what we can use?

Temporal

When we can act and for how long.

• When does our window of action open and close?
• Are there periods we must avoid acting?
• What deadlines create hard boundaries?