| Annual Spend | | Your annual investment in software development. |
| Functionality Developed | | Spend / average cost per Cosmic Function Point (CFP) |
Benefits |
| Finding defects early | | ScopeMaster finds ambiguities, duplicates, inconsistencies and omissions; equivalent to 60% of all requirements. Lowest cost of finding a requirements defect is $25. With ScopeMaster, it takes 20% of the normal time and effort to find them, saving 80% |
| Fixing defects early | | The cost of fixing a requirements defect is normally $150. With ScopeMaster this takes a few minutes instead of hours, saving 80% of the typical cost. |
| Negotiating | | The value of knowing size (and benchmark costs) before you agree an outsourced development gives you a strong position for negotiating a better price (circa 10% on average). |
| Sizing | | Given that you are going to measure the size of your software project. ScopeMaster reduces the cost to perform the sizing measurement from $10 to $2 per CFP |
| Risk reduction | | Improving quality early, and being more confident of the overall scope before coding starts, significantly reduces project risk. $100 per CFP. |
| Total Benefits | | Annual benefits of using ScopeMaster. |