The impact of any requested change may be extensive and may even include effects on other systems. This task includes identifying the earliest point in the development path that is affected by the change, and then identifying the deliverables that are affected by tracing the task dependencies. With this information, developers can determine which tasks of each stage will have to be repeated and can estimate the cost of doing so. The quality of impact assessment is to a large extent determined by the availability of a repository that stores and relates development information.
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