Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody

SEI Report
By
When projects attempt to please too many customers, complexity mounts, schedules slip, costs expand, and no one is happy.
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Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

From the Acquisition Support Program, one in a series of short papers on acquisition patterns of failure. Acquisition Archetypes in an exportation of patterns of failure in software acquisition using systems thinking concepts.

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Software Engineering Institute (2009, March 1). Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-everything-for-everybody/.

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author={Software Engineering Institute},
title={Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody},
month={Mar},
year={2009},
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Software Engineering Institute. "Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, March 1, 2009. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-everything-for-everybody/.

Software Engineering Institute, "Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, 1-Mar-2009 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-everything-for-everybody/. [Accessed: 18-Sep-2026].

Software Engineering Institute. "Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Mar. 2009. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-everything-for-everybody/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

Software Engineering Institute. Acquisition Archetypes: Everything for Everybody. Software Engineering Institute. 2009. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-everything-for-everybody/