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Estimate Sanity Check

The following sanity check indicates how useful your current project estimates are in managing your projects. This quiz is applicable to multi-person, multi-month projects using Scrum and other Agile practices as well as Waterfall projects.

1. Do you use a standardized procedure to create your estimates? *This question is required.
2. Is your estimation process free from pressure that would bias the results? *This question is required.
3. If your estimate was negotiated, were only the inputs to the estimate negotiated, not the outputs or the estimation process itself? *This question is required.
4. Are your estimates expressed with precision that match their accuracy (e.g., are the estimates expressed as ranges or coarse numbers if it’s early in the project)? *This question is required.
5. Are your estimates created using multiple techniques that converge to similar results? *This question is required.
6. Is the productivity assumption underlying your estimates comparable to productivity actually experienced on past projects of similar sizes? *This question is required.
7. Was the schedule estimate computed based on underlying estimates of effort or size, rather than being estimated directly? *This question is required.
8. Are the people who are going to do the work involved in creating the estimates? *This question is required.
9. Do you have your estimates reviewed by an expert estimator? *This question is required.
10. Do your estimates include a non-zero allowance for the impact that project risks and inherent uncertainty will have on effort and schedule? *This question is required.
11. Are your initial estimates part of series of estimates that will become more accurate as the project moves into the narrow part of the cone of uncertainty? *This question is required.
12. Are all elements of your project included in your estimates, including installation program, data conversion, cutover from old system to new system, etc.? *This question is required.
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