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Original Post: Increased Software Development Maintenance Costs
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Software maintenance is an important, but rarely discussed, activity in software development. In its last poll, Methods & Tools asked the question: “What part of your software development budget is devoted to maintenance (enhancing deployed software)?”
The results were:
Participants: 192 / 433
Ending date: December 2012 / October 2007
Source: Methods & Tools Software Development Magazine
This survey shows that the share of maintenance in the software development budgets is increasing, even if software development budgets are also supposed to get bigger. A similar poll on the same topic was performed by Methods ...