1.Find out in which domain category does the application falls
-Banking
-Insurance
-ERP
-CRM
-BIO-Technology
-Healhcare
-Retail
-Others

2.Find out the following details about application
-Front-end
-Back-end
-Database Servers
-Middleware's
-Legacy Systems
-Others

3.Select the application environment from the following
-Client/Server -Internet

4.Collect the following information related to modules
-Total no. of Modules/Use cases
-No. of Critical Modules/Use cases
-No. of associated Modules/Use cases
-No. of Maintainence Modules/Use cases

5.Collect the following
-Functional points
-Lines of code
-No. of pepole involved in development
-No. of Days/ months taken for development

6.Select one core/module associated module /maintainence module and do the depth study and list down your findings

7.Try to understand the system as whole and try to trace down the logical architecture

8.Collect the following: -No, of Business functionalities
-No. of Business Transactions

9.Try to understand the system from the end user point of view

10.Try to classify the project attributes.