At next month’s Total Tech Summit 2025 in Orlando, Fla., top integrators will discuss best practices for project scopes. It’ll all take place during a panel discussion entitled “Deep Dive on Project Scopes: What Integrators Should and Shouldn’t Do.” This panel is proudly sponsored by BenQ.
The panelists for this frank conversation will include Anthony Chirico of CAVT Solutions, David Barazoto of e1 Audiovisual Technologies and Ben Seiber of ProMotion Technology Group (PTG). Dan Ferrisi, group editor, commercial and security, Emerald, will moderate.
Together, the speakers will explore themes revolving around the development and refinement of project scopes. The goal is to offer valuable insights for integration business leaders who want to optimize their business practices and bolster their revenue prospects.
What follows is a preview of some of the central themes that the integrator panel plans to explore.
Total Tech Summit 2025: Detailed Project Scopes
Advantages of Comprehensive Scopes: The panelists will touch on the benefits of detailed project scopes, emphasizing their potential to improve project clarity and execution. Although there’s significant time investment involved in crafting thorough scopes, there are clear benefits to doing so versus opting for shorter project scope documentation. We’ll highlight those benefits during Total Tech Summit 2025.
Differentiating Scope Types: The speakers will strive to parse the nuances that separate narrative scopes, sales narratives and executive summaries from more technical scopes. Understanding these distinctions is crucial for tailoring these documents to specific project and client needs.
Total Tech Summit 2025: Technical Scope Considerations
Contractual Protection: A significant focus area will be how technical scopes protect integrators by clearly defining their contractual obligations. This underscores the importance of viewing project documentation as a potential protective measure for your business.
Incorporating Technical Elements: The panelists will examine the pros and cons of incorporating elements like signal flow drawings and programming information into scope documents. Indeed, you can expect a robust discussion about the requisite level of technical detail needed to assure an outstanding project outcome.
Total Tech Summit 2025: Client-Specific Requirements in Project Scopes
Adapting to Client Needs: Recognizing diverse client requirements — for example, requirements for clients representing public institutions — will be a key theme. The panelists will discuss how these needs shape project scope content, including considerations like line-item pricing.
Subcontractor Scope Documents: We’ll also explore the necessity of separate or different documentation for subcontractors. Plus, expect insights into the nuances of managing subcontracted labor within your projects.
Total Tech Summit 2025: Project Scopes vs. Terms & Conditions (T&Cs)
Clarifying Distinctions: Expect this conversation to clarify the differences between project scope documents and contract T&Cs, focusing on the distinct roles that each play. We’ll look to demarcate the functionality and outcomes outlined in scopes from the rules of engagement that T&Cs should set forth.
Thus, this Total Tech Summit 2025 panel discussion, taking place within the CI Summit content track, will arm integration business professionals with essential knowledge. Attendees will learn how to effectively manage project scopes, tailor them to client needs and parse what should go into scope documents versus go into contract T&Cs.
Total Tech Summit is, of course, the premier leadership conference for entrepreneurial integration business professionals. Emanating from the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., the event will bring together about 100 integration leaders for three days of vendor/distributor access, education and training, and networking opportunities.
For more information about Total Tech Summit 2025, visit the event’s website.
