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Management

Life Cycle Plan: Hours spent creating or updating the Life Cycle Plan.

Control and Monitoring: Hours spent planning, estimating, managing, status reporting, adjusting plans, managing or coordinating work

Client Interaction: Hours spent interacting with client during meetings, or using other forms of communication (e.g., email, phone, etc...) to understand and define the application, evaluate the various prototypes, etc...

Team Interaction: Hours spent in face-to-face meetings with any other team members

Project Web Site: Hours spent preparing and maintaining the project web site and posting deliverables on the web site

Architecture Review Board: Hours spent in preparation for the Architecture Review Board and the actual review time.

Environment

Training and Preparation: Hours spent on training and learning about various tools (e.g., WinWin, Rose, Soda, COCOMO II, Microsoft Project, etc.)

Installation and Administration: Hours spent preparing software and equipment for developing the prototype or software system. Include time spent in administrative matters such as reservations for conference rooms and setting up meeting times.

Configuration Management: Hours spent on product element identification, configuration change management, project library management and configuration status management. 

Custom Toolsmithing: Hours spent developing custom tools for the project.

COTS Initial Filtering (Assessment): Hours spent reading and learning about organization, domain, application, etc. and evaluating and selecting various Commerical Of The Shelf (COTS) components for the application

Requirements

Win Win Negotiations: Hours spent using Win Win to negotiate project requirements

"Developing" means creating or updating the document, as part of the iterative cycle as well as ensuring consistency between the various documents.

Prototyping for Requirements: Hours spent building the prototype for requirements

Modeling for Operational Concept Description: Hours spent building the Operational Conceptual model

Documenting of Operational Concept Description: Hours spent creating or updating the Operational Concept Description document

Modeling for System and Software Requirements Definition: Hours spent building System and Software Requirements model

Documenting System and Software Requirements Definition: Hours spent creating or updating the System and Software Requirements Definition document.

Design

Modeling for System and Software Architecture Description: Hours spent building the System and Software Architecture models

Documenting of System and Software Architecture Description: Hours spent creating or updating the System and Software Architecture Description document, and creating or updating the various model files (e.g., the Rational Rose model to keep it in sync with the rest of the documentation)

COTS Final Selection (Evaluation): Hours spent finally evaluating and selecting of the COTS products and establishing a standard version for the COTS product to be used.

COTS Tailoring: Hours spent in tailoring the finally selected COTS products to the application.

Implementation

Component Prototyping: Hours spent Critical Component Implementation: Hours spent in developing critical algorithms and components for the system.

COTS Glue Code Development: Hours spent developing, and testing glue code integrating the COTS products and the application

Assessment

Business Case Analysis: Hours spent performing a business feasibility study for the business case. Include time spent revising estimates of business case details, surveys and other research.

Feasibility Rationale Description: Hours spent creating or updating the Feasibility Rationale, e.g., analyzing several alternative implementations and/or comparing their impact on schedule, cost and ease of operation

Test Planning: Hours spent developing the system test plan to prescribe the scope, approach, resource and schedule of test activities

Inspections and Peer Reviews: Hours spent doing inspections and peer review on documents and code

Deployment

Transition and Support Planning: Hours spent developing plans for transition and support of the system to be delivered.

Other Effort Not Covered Here

Other: Hours spent performing tasks not covered above