Artifact: Effort Estimate

At appropriate phases or when requested, the domain lead or manager should provide an initial estimate of time and FTE costs to the project management team.

Work Product Kinds: Development Work Products, Enterprise Architecture Management Work Products, Project Management Work Products, Project Management Work Products, Release Management Work Products, Requirements Management Work Products

Purpose

To provide high level domain estimates to project management during the project initiation phase.

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: Project Manager	Modified By: Business Analyst Performance Test Manager Project Manager QA Manager Release Manager
Tasks	Input To: Develop the Test Management Plan	Output From: Develop Effort Estimates Develop Project Management (PMM) Effort Estimates Develop Project Management (PMM) Effort Estimates Develop Quality Management (QMM) Effort Estimates Develop Release Management (RelM) Effort Estimates Develop Requirements Management (RMM) Effort Estimates

Description

Main Description	The domain lead or manager will fill out the required fields in the Effort Estimator to generate the estimate of time and FTE costs.

Illustrations

Templates	Effort Estimator Template

Tailoring

Impact of not having	Project delivery dates will have a direct impact. Potential for poor quality.
Reasons for not needing	Project scope is very small. A spcific domain effort is NOT required.

Version and Release

Unified Life Cycle (ULC): 5.1, November 3, 2014
Phase Gates: 1.1, May 27, 2014
Process Engineering Process (PEP): 1.1, May 27, 2014