A while back Software Development magazine had a fun little article about a number of things that could go wrong with a project. At the time, I was in a project that was in a horrific death spiral, so for fun I made up a small quiz to rate a project. It took a smidge bit of tuning the scoring, but it works adaquately enough to get the point across.
It works surprisingly well. I suggest trying it three times. Once for your current project, then once for the best project you can remember working on, and once for the worst project you can ever remember. The last two will help validate to you that the your current project evaluation is actually quite accurate. Then pass it out to your co-workers, and see if you all have the same unspoken assessment.
I’d love feedback to see what your scores were and how accurate you felt it was, along with any suggestions to improve the quiz.