A large manufacturing firm needed a specialized software program to identify and monitor cost overruns for one of its specialty processing plants. After an extensive search and analysis of potential vendors and considering writing the soft¬ ware in-house, the firm decided to purchase prepackaged software with the intent of modifying it in-house to fit the program to its own individual circumstances and processes. Management assigned the program modification to a team of three pro¬ grammers, who worked on the project for nearly six months. Near the end of the project, and during their final testing phase, the programmers’ manager came to them one morning and told them to stop all testing on the program until further notice. The manager explained that the firm’s manufacturing manager had been reading over the sales agreement with the software vendor and found a clause that stated the software package could not be changed without the prior written consent of the vendor. The manufacturing firm then went to the software vendor and paid an additional fee so that it could implement the modified software in its manufacturing process.

Required Identify and explain which aspect(s) of feasibility the manufacturing firm failed to consider prior to starting the software modification project.