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of thecontracts. Work has been done to try to change the corporate
culture. Business plans, budgets, and risk reports have been produced,
all to no avail. Attempts at increasing the cost estimates on new work
based on using new hires to perform the work was unacceptable. With
higher prices, the work will not be awarded and existing staff will
have to be cut due to the lack of work.
e solution to this never-ending cycle is to find a method of no
longer hiring each time a new contract is awarded and laying off when
it is completed. With the number of different technologies that have
and continue to be used in the systems, support for many technologies
is required. e technologies include both legacy and state-of-the-art
varia