Chapter 2. Estimating the Effort

You have convinced your boss that the Application Development Framework (ADF) has what it takes to build the next generation of destination management software. Now he is asking you how much this new enterprise application will cost, what functionality should go into it, and how long will it take to build.

To be able to answer these questions, you will need to gather the requirements, do a high-level design of the solution, and estimate how long it will take.

Gathering requirements

The first step is to gather the requirements to build the software. This can be done in many different ways depending on your organizational culture and environment, detailed as follows:

  • If you are subject to regulatory requirements (for ...

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