Software Maintenance Success Recipes

Offering critical insight into the preparation of systems for transition and turnover to software operations and maintenance during development, this book covers all phases of maintenance, including software retirement. It identifies the required resources for readying support system operation during transition and turnover and describes how to create a work breakdown structure for maintenance activities. It also explains how to allocate resources, best practices for establishing a maintenance infrastructure that focuses on reuse and resuscitation, and the determination of timely software retirement. Real-world examples reinforce the lessons learned.