• Functional goals
• Strategic goals
• Business goals (e.g.: time-to-market, cost)
• Technological goals
• Quality goals
• Organizational goals (e.g. competence development, testing of new methods, techniques, or tools, application of new processes, etc.)
• Other goals, e.g.: usability, portability, etc. (these goals, and what is specifically expected, should be clearly specified in the Project Requirements Specification)
• Constraints (e.g.: environmental constraints, application specific standards, national standards, cultural relationships, etc.)
Prioritize the project goals:
Functional, business, and quality goals should be prioritized at least.
Identify the various categories of project goals (list the major project goals only and refer to the Project Requirements Specification or other documents for details). Consider the following categories: