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:
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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