8. A computer program product for estimating effort of implementing a system associated with a document, said computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored/encoded thereon: code for quantifying a structure of a document and evaluating a format of the document; code for identifying a domain of an application associated with the document; code for defining a set of complexity variables associated with the document based on the structure of the document, a format of the document and a domain of the document; and code for estimating an effort based on the set of complexity variables; wherein quantifying the structure of the document comprises determining a volume of text in the document and determining a distribution of text in the document; wherein evaluating the format of the document comprises comparing the document to a predefined standard; and wherein identifying the domain of the document comprises identifying a subject of the document.
8. A computer program product for estimating effort of implementing a system associated with a document, said computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored/encoded thereon: code for quantifying a structure of a document and evaluating a format of the document; code for identifying a domain of an application associated with the document; code for defining a set of complexity variables associated with the document based on the structure of the document, a format of the document and a domain of the document; and code for estimating an effort based on the set of complexity variables; wherein quantifying the structure of the document comprises determining a volume of text in the document and determining a distribution of text in the document; wherein evaluating the format of the document comprises comparing the document to a predefined standard; and wherein identifying the domain of the document comprises identifying a subject of the document. 9. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the document comprises a use case.