SPPM 4 Wideband Delphi

Ø   The wideband Delphi estimation process is especially useful to a project management and produces several development of the project.

Ø    The most important product is the set of estimation upon which the project schedule is built.

Ø    The project team creates the work breakdown structure (WBS).

Ø    WBS is the critical element of the plan.

Ø    They also generates the list of assumptions, which can be added to the vision and scope document.

Ø   Wideband Delphi works because it requires the entire team to correct one another in a way that helps to avoid errors and poor estimation.

                            

THE DELPHI PROCESS

Ø    To use the wideband Delphi, the project manager selects a moderator and an estimation team with three to seven members.

Ø   The process consists of two meetings run by the moderator.

Ø   The first meeting is the KICKOFF MEETING, during which the estimation team creates WBS and discuses assumptions.

Ø   After the meeting, each team member creates an effort estimate for each task.

Ø  The second meeting is the ESTIMATION SESSION in which the team estimates the group and achieves consensus.

Ø   After the estimation session the project manager, summarizes the result and review them.

       CHOOSING THE TEAM

Ø   Picking the qualified team is an important task.

Ø  Each team member must be willing  to make an effort  to estimate each effort.

Ø  The estimation should be  knowledgeable enough about the organizations needs.

Ø  The role of the moderator is to ask open ended questions.

Ø  A well choose team will allow the moderator to sit out on the estimation effort  and remain neutral and open-minded during the discussion.

Ø The project manager should choose the team ,it should include people that she is comfortable working with.

Ø  The team should include people that she is comfortable working with.

KICKOFF MEETING

Ø The goal of the kickoff meeting is to prepare the estimation session.

Ø When the kickoff meeting is scheduled,each team member is given the vision and scope of the document.

Ø The team member should read all of the material before attending the meeting.

Ø The goal statement for the estimation session should be agreed upon the project manager and the moderator.

Ø The team discusses the product being developed and brainstorming any sessions.

Ø The team agrees on the unit of estimation.

Ø The must agree on the goal of the estimation session before proceeding with the rest of the estimation process.

INDIVIDUAL PREPARATION

Ø After the kickoff meeting,the moderator writes down all of the assumptions and tasks that were generated by the team during the kickoff meeting and distributes them to the estimation team.

Ø Each team member builds preparation results by first filling the task and then estimating the effort for each task.

ESTIMATION SESSION

Ø The estimation session starts with each estimator filling out an estimation form.

Ø Blank estimation should be handed out to the meeting participants,who fill the tasks and their initial estimates from the individual preparation.

Ø At the point the participants fill out the estimation forms.

Ø The estimation form contains one row for each task being estimated.

Ø Each participants starts with a blank form and write the name of each task in consecutive rows

ASSEMBLE TASKS

Ø After the estimation meeting is finished,the project manager works with the moderator to gather all the results from the individual preparation and estimation team.

Ø The final task will be in same format as the estimation tasks.

REVIEW RESULTS

Ø Once the results are ready,the project manager calls the final meeting  to review the estimation results with the team.

Ø The goal of the meeting is to estimate whether the results of the session are sufficient for further planning.