Guidelines:
Business Case
Business Case |
The Business Case
provides the necessary information from a business standpoint, to determine
whether or not this project is worth investing in. |
Topics
Development costs are most typically associated with direct
development expenses, but other sources generate project-related expenses as
well:
- Requirements gathering
- Project management
- Testing
- System management, including development, testing and deployment systems
- Initial hardware and software for development, testing and deployment
systems
- Production support
- Data or transaction volumes which increased hardware
investment to support
- Initial implementation costs
- hardware
- packaged software
- installation costs
- development and testing costs
- cost of running an acceptance test or pilot
- deployment costs
- Ongoing operating costs
- Operating and support staff costs
- System maintenance costs
- Hardware and software maintenance
- Communications
- Software licenses
- Environmental costs
- Expansion and growth costs
- Hardware
- Software rework/amendment.
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