We calculate, communicate and define the Budget in staff-hours. The actual monetary size of a project is a multiple of staff-hours and price per hour.

We use our proprietary patent-pending method (USPTO patent 12/193,010) for Budget estimation and calculation.

The Budget covers all costs, including:

• Programming
• Requirements Development
• Project Management
• Architecture and Design
• Testing and Quality Assurance
• Deployment
• Defect-removal

The Budget is paid only for Deliverables, not for the time spent. It does not include support and other maintenance services.

The Budget is calculated by the project team using Functional Requirements. Each Requirement is estimated by programmers and then the total project programming effort can be calculated. Efforts for other project disciplines are calculated using the amount of hours for programming.

The Budget is changed only when changes are made to scope by Change Requests.