It provides a valuable input for cost estimation, scheduling, and evaluating the progress of the project.

它是成本估算、日程、评估项目进展时会用到的很有价值的输入。

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While information technology makes it possible to multiply and distribute content worldwide and almost at no cost, legal restrictions on the reuse of copyright material hamper progress.

虽然信息技术使复制内容并在世界范围内发行成为可能，而且几乎没有成本，但关于重用保留版权的资料的法律规章却阻碍进步。

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Delaying the deployment of code that you write allows you to present apparent progress (" we're delivering code every iteration ") at the cost of long-term success.

拖延代码部署导致了我们用长期成功的成本来展示仅仅表象的进步(“每一次反复我们都在提交代码”)。

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This absence of cost incentives is especially problematic -- paradoxically -- because of the technological progress that has occurred and will occur in medicine.

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There may be new investment opportunities as companies applying standard inkjet printing techniques to reduce the cost of making solar modules or batteries continue to make progress.

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On the world's reliance on oil, Daniel Franklin said that enormous progress had been made in bringing down the cost of solar energy and new forms of gas, adding that we should "look head on at risks" but we also need a corrective to look at the bigger picture.

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