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Type Good practice 
Lesson Learned Statement The use of prototypes is especially important for CBS development. 
Issue/Risk factor Early prototypes can avoid a lot of potential problems later, thus avoiding delays and overruns. 
Impact on cost high 
Impact on quality unknown 
Impact on schedule high 
Type of data qualitative 
Recommended action Use prototypes. 
Comments/Story see text 
Life-cycle Phase planning and design 
Recommended audience Project manager 
Aspect Technical 
Object Process 
Type of system supply inventory 
Type of company defense 
Number of COTS per project one 
Type of COTS package not intended to be COTS 
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/SystemsandSoftware.doc 
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