Re: A Trend Towards Lower Software Maintenance Budgets?

It's an oddly formulated question: what percentage of your DEVELOPMENT
budget is devoted to MAINTENANCE. Surely the two items should be separate
in the budget!

Anyway, here's a site run by a gentleman who published "Software Maintenance
News" until he sold it, and has been almost as frequently quoted as other
maintenance gurus. Knows what he's talking about.

http://www.maint.com

PL

Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 30 Oct, 13:24, editormt <edi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Software maintenance is an important part of the software development
activity, but it is also the less discussed. A recent poll seems to
show that the part of maintenance in software development budget is
going down. Why?

Question: what percentage of your software development budget is
devoted to maintenance. Maintenance is defined as process of
correcting, enhancing and optimising deployed software.

25% or less of the budget ...........37%
26% to 50% of the budget ............27%
51% to 75% of the budget ............24%
more than 75% of the budget .........12%

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