The long lifecycles of the building stock, the impacts of climate change and the requirements for low carbon development underline the need for long-term thinking from the early design stages.
Such trends may be leveraged to design systems with reduced long term lifecycle costs and, on occasion, unexpected benefits.
"Technical Debt" is a term first used by Ward Cunningham in an experience report in 1992.1 The term refers to the accruing debt or downstream cost that happens when short term priorities trump long term lifecycle costs.
Command and Control (C2) systems are complex and require large capital investments, asynchronous design and test periods for different elements, and long deployment lifecycles of substituent elements.
This extends the interaction lifecycle long after the visitor has left the website.
He maintains that they are looking at an extremely long (10 year) lifecycle for their console, which, looking at the success even today of the Playstation 2, is not such a far-fetched claim.
IIE Transactions, 32, 819 831] considered a problem in which a single risk neutral distributor supplies a short-lifecycle, long-leadtime product to several retailers that are identical except in their attitudes towards risk.
