Do your resources approve estimates?

August 16, 2022
Project Management

There are many methods used to estimate the effort required to complete a task. Regardless of the method used, the resource should approve the estimate before the task is released.

When the resource approves the estimate, they have bought in, are planning for success, and have a good physiological mindset at the onset. If the resource is forced to accept someone else’s estimate they are justified when they fail—after all, it is someone else’s estimate, not theirs.

The resource is best equipped to make the estimate as they will be doing the work. If they have done the task before, the estimate should be reliable.

If the task is new to the resource, the estimate will tend to be high, as it should be. This serves as natural risk mitigation, which it good.

Each day, the resource should provide an updated “remaining effort". As the resource gets experience with the task, the new estimates will become more and more accurate.

Steven Souther
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