First thing for me and most important is to check their Monetary Policy, second thing is to check dev team...
Yes, that is indeed better, but it is different from me where I will examine the development team first and then check their monetary policy and arrange the road map they have made to succeed, because that is what I often do in any project.
road map and whitepapaer are very important to choose a crypto currency project, especially if the roadmap is not going according to plan it is certain that the project is not good, that's the reason I chose the project