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CHAPTER 11 
Functional Analysis and Allocation Practice
should be conducted to establish performance characteristics and permit the optimi-
zation of resource utilization strategies.
11.4 
Architectural assessment
The emerging functional architecture must be continually assessed to ensure that 
it will satisfy the software specifications and is not overly complex so as not to 
impact software sustainment costs. These architectural assessment tasks provide the 
software engineering team reassurance that the functional architecture represents an 
efficient and effective foundation for software product life-cycle sustainment and 
will facilitate future enhancements and extensions.