A project manager is leading a software development project. The team is consistently delivering work late, causing schedule delays. The project manager suspects the initial duration estimates were too optimistic. What is the best action to improve future estimation accuracy?
Trap 1: Extend the project schedule to accommodate delays.
Extending schedule does not fix estimation process.
Trap 2: Assign additional team members to complete tasks faster.
Adding resources may not address estimation accuracy.
Trap 3: Increase all future estimates by 20% to account for unknowns.
Padding estimates is not a systematic improvement.
- A
Review historical data and lessons learned from similar projects.
Historical data improves estimation accuracy.
- B
Extend the project schedule to accommodate delays.
Why wrong: Extending schedule does not fix estimation process.
- C
Assign additional team members to complete tasks faster.
Why wrong: Adding resources may not address estimation accuracy.
- D
Increase all future estimates by 20% to account for unknowns.
Why wrong: Padding estimates is not a systematic improvement.