Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield

Chapter 7. Evolution of the Elephant Eater

	“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
	--Charles Darwin

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The Sources of Brownfield 134

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Isn’t This CASE? 138

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Isn’t This MDA? 139

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Endnotes 142

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The preceding chapters have explained the problems the industry faces when developing elephantine solutions. We have discussed the current development methods and highlighted their deficiencies. We have introduced the concepts and fundamental principles of Brownfield. We have also illustrated how its adoption can improve the ...