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

• Sources of costs

Sources of Costs

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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