IT:PM:Estimates/Checklists

* Stages to consider when estimating:

• Environmental Setup
• Analysis
• Design
• Development
• Release
• Documentation
• Handoff

1. Services (consider that several services should be further broken down as per IT:AD:Patterns:Controlled Admin Access Strategy):
   1. [3] ServiceLocatorService: basis of finding other services.
   2. [ ] ITracingService:centralized tracing service
   3. [3] ApplicationSettingsService: settings shared across load balanced hosts
   4. [3] HostSettingsService: settings specific to a host
   5. [3] UserSettingsService: preferences per user (equivalent to ASP.NET's Profile service, but improve it as it's a poor design).
   6. [3] IEnvironmentService : service to render information as to network, domain, machine, user, time.
   7. [3] DateTimeService: service to render datetime translated to org wide HQ or other timezone other than GMT.
   8. [3] AuthenticationService: a mockable service to back the application's authentication requirements per tier.
   9. [3] AuthorisationService: a mockable service to back the application's authentication requirements per tier.
   10. [3] DirectoryServiceService: a generic directory service service, that in a windows environment relies on ActiveDirectoryService
   11. [3] ActiveDirectoryService: an active directory service to information on enterprise users (email, reports to, manages, groups, printers, etc).
   12. [3] CachingService: required to cache per pier.
   13. [3] ObjectMappingService: multitier and web applications require a means to map Entities to DTO's and View Model's and back again.
   14. [3] EFGenericRepositoryService: an EF Generics capable repository service that relies on GenericRepositoryService.
   15. [ ] GenericRepositoryService: a Generics capable repository service to back application specific repositories.
   16. [3] ResourceLocalisationService: a recursive-capable string (and image) resource service.
   17. [3] TemplateTransformationService: a service to process string templates (eg: mail templates, etc.)
   18. [3] ReportingService: a report generation service, that in turn invokes SSRSReportingService or MSOfficeReportingService
   19. [3] SSRSReportingService: a report generation service using SSRS.
   20. [3] MSOfficeReportingService: a report generation service using user generated Word templates (see IT:AD:Aspose).
   21. [3] NotificationService: a notification service that in turn uses SmtpNotificationService
   22. [3] SmtpNotificationService: mail service for outgoing mail (not incoming, hence called notification, not messaging).
   23. [3] RuleEngineService: a C# script based based rule engine.
   24. [3] PerformanceService: a Perf counter management service.
   25. [ ] Consider ArchivingService to trigger archives of Db and/or other data.
   26. [ ] ExceptionHandlingService:sanitizes errors before bubbling up to UI, and/or logging.
2. [ ] CodeFirst Model Descriptors: entity model (EF) definitions are defined in this assembly.
   1. Note: drag occurs by having to keep up to date with model
   2. Note: drag occurs having to keep Code Migrations scriptlets generated, and checked in.
3. Custom:
   1. [ ] Custom client specific centralized logging / health monitoring / auditing solutions