Project Kickoff Alignment Survey
Get every stakeholder's definition of success on record before work begins.
5 questions · 1 page · about 4 minutes to answer · fully editable after you start
Projects fail at kickoff and discover it at delivery: five stakeholders, five silent definitions of done. This alignment survey collects each stakeholder's success definition, top risk, decision-making expectations, and communication preferences before the first sprint – making disagreement visible while it is still cheap.
Read the success-definition answers side by side in the kickoff meeting; where they diverge is the meeting's real agenda, and resolving it there saves the change-request war later.
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Before we begin
This survey asks each person on the project what success looks like to them. We will compare your answers to make sure we start with the same picture. It takes about 4 minutes.
Q1.Your name and role on this project*
Q2.In your own words: what does SUCCESS look like for this project?*
Q3.What is the biggest risk you see?*
Q4.How should day-to-day decisions be made?
- Project lead decides, informs us
- Consult key stakeholders first
- Consensus on anything significant
Q5.How do you want project updates?
- Weekly written summary
- Standing meeting
- Dashboard I check myself
- Only when something needs me
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