Acquisition Modeling: The Key to Managing Acquisition Complexity?
• Presentation
This presentation was delivered at the 3rd OSD Conference on the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems in January 2004.
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Software Engineering Institute
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Abstract
The speakers conclude that:
- System dynamics modeling is a way to describe SPO and contractor alternative courses of action and answer questions about their long-term consequences.
- Acquisition modeling success depends on model validation and the decision-makers willingness to act on the results.
- Successful use of SPO-contractor system dynamics models in the software-intensive space system acquisition domain depends on demonstrating that the models provide useful insight into questions important to acquisition decision makers and on acquisition decision makers trusting the models sufficiently to act based on their results.