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Type Good practice 
Lesson Learned Statement Knowledge of the marketplace and of specific technologies and products is critical. Assumptions and naïveté are deadly. 
Issue/Risk factor Without a good understanding of the COTS available, assumptions about amount of effort could be way off. 
Impact on cost high 
Impact on quality unknown 
Impact on schedule high 
Type of data qualitative 
Recommended action Do your homework. 
Comments/Story see text 
Life-cycle Phase Acquisition 
Recommended audience Project manager 
Aspect Business 
Object Technology 
Type of system diverse 
Type of company defense 
Number of COTS per project one or few 
Type of COTS diverse 
Date Created 7/2/2003 
Date added 12/10/2003 
Name Tricia Oberndorf 
Organization SEI 
e-mail po@sei.cmu.edu 
Reference "COTS-Based Systems Lessons Learned Web Pages" (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cbs/lessons/) 
Link docs/Procurement.doc 
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