Identifying Acquisition Patterns of Failure Using System Archetypes

April 9, 2008 • Presentation

By

Linda Levine and William E. Novak

This presentation discusses finding the root causes of acquisition problems.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Topic or Tag

Acquisition

Abstract

The purpose of this presentation is to show how Acquisition Archetypes (based on Systems Thinking concepts) can help to avoid common counter-productive behaviors in software acquisition and development programs.