Software ENG

* Business Case and Initial Cost Estimate

Assign points to your user stories and use cases based on intuitive complexity.

Do a search for other similar existing software and not costs. (You can invent this)

List open source software that does a similar function and describe what is not suitable about it.

Make an arbitrary decision about how much each user story/ requirement point is going to cost in hours. For example, you may say each point costs 4 hours.

Then decide what your hour is worth and estimate the development cost.

Identify business risks for the project.

Identify the cost of tools and other equipment you will need. (you can invent this)

Make the Buy or build decision. Hint, you will decide to build. Based on 1 through 7 Why did you decide to build? (At least one small paragraph justifying why you decided to build)

(These are technical 'things' we dont know how to do, but will need to know to write this program)

What skill will you need for this project but do not yet have?

These are things that could jeopardize the implementation of the software product.

These things make you nervous about accepting and implementing the project because you dont know how to do them.

Do not include things like the popularity of the product. That is a business risk.

Do not include things like staff leaving the project. You are the staff.

Do not include any generic risk mentioned in the text. These risks should be unique to you.