Description:Technology maturity: What is it, and why is it important?For more than ten years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has criticized federal agencies for ahistory of cost and schedule overruns on a significant portion of their procurement programs. GAO hasrepeatedly reported that the use of immature technologies in programs is a primary cause for these overruns.In spite of these repeated reports, the problems in government procurement have not improved. In fact, recent reports indicate that the problems are getting worse.One cause of this worsening situation might be that, while GAO identified lack of technology maturity as aproblem, they did not tell how to measure technology maturity, or conversely, its lack.This groundbreaking work attempts to fill this gap by examining the current state of technology maturitymeasurement, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of available measures, and proposing a completetechnology maturity assessment as a potential solution. The book also includes a discussion of risk duringtechnology development.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Did I Ever Tell You about the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity. To get started finding Did I Ever Tell You about the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Did I Ever Tell You about the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity
Description: Technology maturity: What is it, and why is it important?For more than ten years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has criticized federal agencies for ahistory of cost and schedule overruns on a significant portion of their procurement programs. GAO hasrepeatedly reported that the use of immature technologies in programs is a primary cause for these overruns.In spite of these repeated reports, the problems in government procurement have not improved. In fact, recent reports indicate that the problems are getting worse.One cause of this worsening situation might be that, while GAO identified lack of technology maturity as aproblem, they did not tell how to measure technology maturity, or conversely, its lack.This groundbreaking work attempts to fill this gap by examining the current state of technology maturitymeasurement, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of available measures, and proposing a completetechnology maturity assessment as a potential solution. The book also includes a discussion of risk duringtechnology development.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Did I Ever Tell You about the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity. To get started finding Did I Ever Tell You about the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.