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Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger

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Planning for a long development period doesn't always solve acquisition scheduling problems. Sometimes it makes them worse.
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From the Acquisition Support Program, one in a series of short papers on acquisition patterns of failure. Acquisition Archetypes is an exportation of failure patterns in software acquisition using systems thinking concepts.

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Software Engineering Institute (2009, April 1). Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger. Retrieved October 9, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-longer-begets-bigger/.

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title={Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger},
month={Apr},
year={2009},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
url={https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-longer-begets-bigger/},
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Software Engineering Institute. "Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, April 1, 2009. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-longer-begets-bigger/.

Software Engineering Institute, "Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, 1-Apr-2009 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-longer-begets-bigger/. [Accessed: 9-Oct-2026].

Software Engineering Institute. "Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger." Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Apr. 2009. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-longer-begets-bigger/. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

Software Engineering Institute. Acquisition Archetypes: Longer Begets Bigger. Software Engineering Institute. 2009. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/acquisition-archetypes-longer-begets-bigger/

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