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Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger

April 2009 White Paper

Planning for a long development period doesn't always solve acquisition scheduling problems. Sometimes it makes them worse.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

From the Acquisition Support Program, one in a series of short papers on acquisition patterns of failure.

Acquisition Archetype: Longer Begets Bigger

Planning for a long development period doesn't always solve acquisition scheduling problems. Sometimes it makes them worse.