Harsha J. answered 07/26/20
Business Analyst with 8 years of Corporate IT Experience
This is an interesting question with many possible answers.
In my opinion, I would first start with an analysis User Story and refine it going forward. Like you mentioned, it is clearly not possible to estimate efforts/costs/schedule etc at the very beginning. Therefore as a PM,I would-
- Organize brain storming sessions with stakeholders to understand what kind of UI they are expecting. Many a times stakeholders have no idea what they want and they keep changing requirements which causes re-work and dissatisfaction in the team.
- Organize initial discussions with technical leader/team leaders to ensure they understand the ask! (Most important). I would then give them sometime to think !
- Circle back with everyone to take their opinions and estimate schedule and cost based on that.
Until I am not done, this would go on as an analysis User story.