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With increasing pressure to remain competitive in their respective markets, many commercial companies are turning to a greater use of COTS products to provide more capability faster to their end-users. Early attempts to leverage COTS products using existing waterfall-oriented development approaches have met with many failures. As a result, organizations are searching for more viable alternatives. This presentation shares the early experiences of one commercial project to identify and transition from a waterfall development process to a process explicitly designed to leverage the commercial marketplace and other sources of existing components to form delivered solutions.
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Brownsword, L., Brooks, M. (2004). Managing the COTS Chaos: Experiences from the Trenches Using the Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems. In: Kazman, R., Port, D. (eds) COTS-Based Software Systems. ICCBSS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2959. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24645-9_37
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