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Human investment techniques for effective software maintenance
Pages 131 - 136
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This paper presents methods for improving the maintenance of software by addressing the psychological issues that impact on software maintenance personnel. The emphasis in this paper is on making software maintenance developers more effective through goal setting, by using team-building approaches, through support personnel, and by using skill profiles to plan for their technical growth.
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DOI:10.1145/1500676
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