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Shifting the burden

Notes:

The best way to illustrate this archetype is to talk through an example.

The problem symptom is “software takes too much time and money to develop”.

The symptomatic solution that I am going to use to address this, is to adopt a shiny new technology that makes development quicker.

This has a number of possible side effects, such as: -
Recruitment/Retraining costs
Learning curve costs
Lack of experience resulting in mis-use/implementation issues
Loss of re-use of old technology
Perceived devaluation of old technology
Communication issues

What we really needed to do was to manage the complexity within the software developoment process, eg: -
Processes
Skills and knowledge
Communications
Business model
Adopting a new technology may still be part of our solution. However we wouldn't expect the new technology to be a panacea.