The following are some useful questions that you may wish to review before starting a project.
- How often is the project going to be maintained?
- Is there a developing/Testing environment available?
- Where do I access to this particular information?
- Who have this particular information?
- How do I access to this particular information?
- Whom I have to talk to?
- Who made the decision?
- Is this the best solution for this problem?
- Are there backups?
- Is there a backup system that we can use before starting working on the project?
- Who is going to assign the roles and responsibilities?
- Are all team members familiar with the project?
- Are parameters of the project unlikely to change?
- Is this a large project team?
- Is the project process thoroughly documented?
- Is the project manager experienced in other project methodologies?
- What are we getting ourselves into?
- What impact is going to be?
- What are their expectations from the project?
- What are their expectations from us?
- Where is the list of TODOs located?
- What is going to be involved in maintain the solution?
- Are they maintaining and we are just configuring?
- Are we just going to administrator and maintain this project?
- Are we taking over this project?
- Do you understand that system administration is not an operation?
- This is too generic. Would you mind to explain exactly what is your expectation from us?
- What do you exactly need us to do?
- Where does it say in the document?
- What are we purchasing?
- Who is trained on this?
- Is this the way we really work?
- Am I involved in this project?
- Who is involved in this project?
- Can we break this in chunks?
- How much do we know is going to take if we don’t know what is going to be implemented?
- Would be this be sufficient and not customizations would be required?
- How is going to be maintained?
- How do they put the extended functionality?
- For how long the extended functionality would be available?
- How much times do they except us to put on it?
- How much do they charge us? It is too low or too high?
- How much do we charge them? It is too low or too high?
- What are we signing on?
- Are we going to be the administrator of this system?
- Are we going to be the developers of this system?
- Are we going to be the administrator and developers on this system?
- Who are we making these questions for?
- Is the process map out?
- What do they need to know and want to hear?
- What’s their preferred way of receiving information?
- What may prevent them from listening to what you have to say?
- How will you know that they got the message?
