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From: heron@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Vance Heron)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: design to cost
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Date: 11 Feb 91 20:31:34 GMT
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In article <1991Feb06.102233.19301@eecs.wsu.edu> pcooper@yoda.UUCP (Phil Cooper - CS495) writes:

>    Forgive my ignorance, but how in the world can your funding board
>allocate a sum of money for a particular software development effort
>before any requirements are known or estimation done? 

By figuring what the finished product will be worth to the organization -
if it will cost $1M to develop software that will make/save the company
$100/year, the $1M wont be allocated (most of the time)

Vance