Abstract: A system and method for establishing an estimate for proposals and other customer requests which precludes an extensive up front investment in expert opinion and design. This is accomplished by applying a pattern-based technique toward rough application effort sizing called herein “Web Based Macro Patterns.

Abstract: Systems and methods for producing a software product are disclosed. In a beginning of developing a software product, a project manager considers a number of stations, where each station specializes in one of a plurality of process steps for converting existing product descriptions and/or code into code segments operable in enabling the software product. Based on the knowledge of the station specialties, the project manager may distribute a number of tasks associated with developing the software product to the various stations. One of the stations is operable to assemble the enabling code segments into the software product. In this way, expertise is continually made available during multiple development processes for multiple software products. Thus, both a cost and a time for completion of the software products can be reduced, while a predictability of each is improved.