Write a reusable prompt with replaceable inputs. Submit your prompt and one test output for this example.
Task: Create a range-based estimate for a fictional content migration.
Example input: A team has 120 help articles. Forty are short, 50 are medium, and 30 are long. Estimated cleanup per article: short 5–10 minutes, medium 10–20, long 20–35. Every article also needs a separate 3–5 minute review. Setup takes 2 hours once. Two people each have 3 focused hours per day available for this project. Assume work can be divided freely and these are effort estimates rather than guaranteed throughput.
Constraints:
- Calculate minimum and maximum total effort before converting to workdays.
- Keep person-hours distinct from elapsed team days.
- Add a separate 15% contingency range and show the formula.
Required output from your prompt: Provide the estimate, an assumption list, and a brief recommendation about what to measure in a ten-article pilot.
Success checks:
- All 120 articles and the review step are included exactly once.
- Setup is counted once.
- Daily capacity is six person-hours.
- The estimate remains a range and identifies the largest source of uncertainty.