Now It’s Your Turn

1. When you were starting your last project, what questions needed to be answered before the start? Were the produced estimates suitable for answering those questions? Were the people producing the estimates informed of how they would be used?

2. List the different types of needs for estimates that you’ve encountered at the start of your projects. Consider the accuracy, precision, and probability distribution of error to suit those needs. How many different sorts of estimates have you needed (whether or not that’s what you received or provided)? How many times was the desirable accuracy, precision, and error distribution estimate unknown?