2012
Reducing Project Failures by Aligning Acquisition Strategy and Software Architecture with Stakeholder Needs
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Second in a Two-Part Series
By Lisa Brownsword
Acquisition Support Program
Major acquisition
programs increasingly rely on software to provide substantial portions
of system capabilities. All too often, however, software is not
considered when the early, most constraining program decisions are
made. SEI researchers have identified misalignments between software architecture and system acquisition
strategies that lead to program restarts, cancellations, and failures
to meet important missions or business goals. This blog posting—the
second installment in a two-part series—builds on the discussions in part one
by introducing several patterns of misalignment—known as
anti-patterns—that we’ve identified in our research and discussing how
these anti-patterns
are helping us create a new method for aligning software architecture
and system acquisition strategies to reduce project failure.
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