Managing application program maintenance expenditures

1 October 1983

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 26 (10) , 739-746
https://doi.org/10.1145/358413.358421

Abstract

Program maintenance represents a major portion of the total expenditures on application programs. Despite the attention this subject has received in the MIS literature, new guidelines to action in this area remain of great interest to practitioners. A large number of variables thought to be determinants of application program maintenance expenditure have been studied through the inspection of application portfolios and personal interviews with top computer executives and systems development personnel. Based on the results, recommendations are made on how to reduce application program maintenance expenditures.

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Problems in application software maintenance
Communications of the ACM, 1981
Characteristics of application software maintenance
Communications of the ACM, 1978
Perspectives in Software Engineering
ACM Computing Surveys, 1978
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