ABSTRACT

Instead of discussing the underlying theory of maintenance and concepts associated with product reengineering and evolution, the book concentrates on identifying a number of success recipes that you can put in place to improve the practice of soœware maintenance. ­ese recipes are aligned with the actions that you need to take to put a truly comprehensive maintenance infrastructure in place that enables you to facilitate getting

the work that we have scoped done e±ciently and in the most cost-e¥ective manner. Your job is to take the materials from it that makes sense to you and use them to improve the manner in which you and your organization performs soœware maintenance. Success to me is when you take the materials that I have presented in this book and use them to bene§t you and your organization directly.