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Maximizing Product Value: Continuous Maintenance

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A frequent software related claim is that the initial development costs are 30% and that 70% more is needed in maintenance. However we claim that in today’s software industry, software maintenance and the development of new features are intimately tangled, and it is impossible to separate them in a reliable fashion. We demonstrate this by showing how some modern software engineering approaches address maintenance and the development of new features, and we describe a concept of continuous maintenance to manage frequent changes both in software and business.

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  1. Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 1, FI-33720, Tampere, Finland

    Tommi Mikkonen & Kari Systä

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  1. Fraunhofer IESE, Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, FI-90014, Finland

    Pasi Kuvaja

  3. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense, Denmark

    Marco Kuhrmann

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Tomi Männistö  & Jürgen Münch  & 

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalto University, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Mikko Raatikainen

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Mikkonen, T., Systä, K. (2014). Maximizing Product Value: Continuous Maintenance. In: Jedlitschka, A., Kuvaja, P., Kuhrmann, M., Männistö, T., Münch, J., Raatikainen, M. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8892. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13835-0_26

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

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