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Project Team Post-mortem Survey
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SECTION 1: General Project Issues / Communication
How clearly defined
were the objectives for
this project?
How clearly defined
were the objectives for
your work?
How clear were you
on your role in the
project?
How adequatelyinvolved did you feel
in project decisions?
If not, what decisions did you feel excluded from?
How efficient and
effective were project
team meetings?
What would you change?
How efficient and
effective were
technical meetings?What would you change?
Were Issues
adequately logged,
followed-up, and
managed?
What Issues could have been handled better?
How well do you feel
the executives
supported this project?
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How adequate has
participation from the
business functional
side staff been?What were the problems encountered in the project-to-business functional side staff
relationship, why, and how could they be fixed? What cross-functional participation, if
any, was lacking?
Do you feel
appreciated,
recognized and
rewarded for your
efforts?
What (if anything) has been lacking?
To what degree do youfeel the entire team
was committed to the
project schedule?
What if any issues are there?
To what degree were
any "people issues" in
the way?
What Issues?
What communication, organization and structural problems in general did you
encounter? How could we have done better in these areas?
SECTION 2: Schedule and Estimation Issues
Which of the following estimation issues did you personally have and what was its
impact:
I was diverted to work on another project.
If so:
Name of project:
Amount of time diverted for:
Impact on your project work:
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I overestimated the amount of time I would have each week to work on this project.
If so:
The other work that interfered was:
The amount of time per week it took up was:
Impact: Calendar schedule slip of __days __weeks __ months
My initial schedule did not include some core work under my responsibility (e.g.
design, construction, etc.) that I subsequently realized I had to do.
If so:
Describe briefly:
Impact Additional hours of work:
My initial schedule did not take into account certain project "other" work, such as
attending other people's design reviews, etc.
If so:
Describe:
Impact: Calendar schedule slip of __days __weeks __ months
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My estimates for particular tasks were not accurate.
If so:
Describe the type of task, how "off" the estimate was (days, weeks):
Why was it difficult to estimate?
What would help get better estimates next time?
I unexpectedly had to re-do some work.
If so:
Describe:
Impact on your schedule:
What could have helped prevent the problem?
Knowing what you know now, how would you do the scheduling/estimating process
differently next time to avoid any problems noted above?
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SECTION 3: Design, Implementation, and Test Processes
How effective was our
architecture/systemdesign process in each
phase?
Comments:
How effective were
our functional specs?
Comments:
How effective wereour design (or
implementation)
specs?
Comments:
How effective were
our design reviews?
Comments:
How effective wereour code reviews?
Comments:
How well were
interfaces defined?
Comments:
How well were design
and interface decisionsdocumented?
Comments:
How effective has
interaction/cooperation
between technical
"sub-teams" (i.e. teams
within or supporting
our team) been?
Comments:
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How useful was your
unit testing?
Comments:
Did you take unit testing into account in your schedule?
How smooth do you
feel Integration has
been?
Comments (why or why not?):
How comprehensive
was integrationtesting, especially to
allow QA testing to
get off to a good start?
Comments:
How well is the build
process working?
Comments:
To what degree didyou have the tools you
needed for testing?
Comments:
To what degree did
you receive the
training you needed
for this assignment?
Comments:
SECTION 4: Perceived Project Lifecycle/Development/Process Issues
1. Did our chosen development process hamper this project? If so, how?
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2. What would you change about our chosen development process?
3. What would you like to better understand or see better documented about how to use
this, or some other chosen process, on this type of project?
SECTION 5: Closing
1. What were up to five main causes for schedule slips, and how could we avoid those
causes in the future?
2. Was the project significantly delayed/ hampered by outside dependencies (outside to
the project that is)? Which ones? How to solve?
3. What (or who) were the main bottlenecks on the process?
4. What were the main sources of frustration in the project?
5. If we had to do it all over, what is the one thing that you would change (related to
process, not to technical solution)?
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6. For the next project, how/ what could we improve on the way project was run?
Feel free to add any other comments here. Be polite!
Thanks very much for all your comments!
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