Patent Document ID: 7873531
Application ID: 12579669
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: define, for a general kind of project, project parameters, project characteristics, and major services; define analysis rules for the general kind of project; provide a plurality of project factors comprising project-parameter inputs, project-characteristic inputs, and major-services inputs, wherein the project factors define a complexity matrix for the specific project having a plurality of complexity measures for the plurality of project factors; apply the analysis rules to the plurality of project factors; output, for the specific project, a single complexity measure for the specific project based on a combination of the plurality of complexity measures for the plurality of project factors; perform an estimate of requirements for completing the project based on the single complexity measure for the specific project; and output the estimate of requirements for completion of the specific project based on results of performing the estimate of requirements, wherein: the complexity matrix has an associated defined exceptional combination that defines a combination of a subset of project factors, the subset of project factors being less than a total number of project factors within the plurality of project factors, and a condition of the complexity measures for the combination of the subset of project factors, that forces the single complexity measure for the specific project to be a maximum complexity measure value.