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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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