Side Effects of Designing for Change
Programs that are designed for change continue to yield benefits long after their initial construction. Capers Jones reports that programs that are well-structured and developed with high quality are nearly guaranteed to have long and useful service lives. Programs that are poorly structured and developed with low quality are nearly always taken out of service or become catastrophically expensive to maintain within 3 to 5 years (Jones 1994).
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