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Project Kickoff Questions

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Almost every project post-mortem names a question that should have been asked at the start and was not, usually because the kickoff was spent on timelines. Work through these before the first sprint instead. Thirty questions covering scope, ownership, success criteria and the uncomfortable ones about what happens when it slips. Draw five for a short kickoff or run the lot for something large. The ones people hesitate over are the ones that will cost you later.

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1What problem are we actually solving?
2Who is the customer?
3How will we know this worked?
4What does done look like?
5What is explicitly out of scope?
6Who makes the final call?
7Who needs to be consulted before decisions?
8What is the hard deadline and why?
9What happens if we slip?
10What are we assuming that we have not checked?
11What is the biggest risk?
12What has been tried before?
13Why did the last attempt fail?
14What does the budget cover?
15Who else is depending on this?
16What do we need from other teams?
17What could block us in week one?
18How often do we check in?
19Where does the work live?
20How do we handle scope changes?
21What does good enough mean here?
22Which trade-off do we make under pressure?
23Who is accountable if this fails?
24What are we not doing to do this?
25How will we communicate progress?
26What would make us stop this project?
27Who has done something similar we can learn from?
28What does the handover look like?
29How will we support this afterwards?
30What would success look like in a year?
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