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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dr. C,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I think it’s generally a matter of complexity and scale. For those that recall the Big Dig in Boston, that modernize-while-operate approach is tough. In software, everything is always more complex once you
get under the hood so to speak. Every software build that I’ve been a part of, inevitably and invariably a mod (DoD, Exec Agency, private sector) is a combo of fixing and adding features. The incentives are to get the software into production when it’s been
validated as functioning per design requirements, but its generally not time/cost effective to test every permutation of the full range of all variable values, etc. To me it is naturally common and will continue to be so. It’s not entirely the same as the
construction world’s notion of substantial completion, but it’s something like that. Software is just one of the layers of the whole lash up, with the physical and logical models other important elements and the differences and nuances across the range of
hosting platforms, the particular maturities/legacies/etc. of the hardware etc. Not sure what else to say about this…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#7030A0">Learner | Intellection | Context | Ideation | Input<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Jonathan Coopersmith via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 18:57<br>
<b>To: </b>SIGCIS <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] software modernization failures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FFEB9C"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">This email originated outside TTU. Please
<a href="https://askit.ttu.edu/phishing">exercise caution</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Looks Back,"</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"> (interview with Sherm Mullin) </span><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Aerospace America</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> March 2023 </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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longer to vote - especially if you are Black or Hispanic</a>, <a href="http://theconversation.com/" target="_blank">theconversation.com</a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Preserving space archives: <a href="https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/" target="_blank">https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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