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Software Maintenance & Support

The need for Maintenance & Support answers

Managers responsible for software portfolio Maintenance & Support need answers to a host of questions including:

¨ What productivity rates are being achieved?
¨ What proportion of time is spent on maintenance and what on support?
¨ What percentage of time is being spent on the different categories of maintenance: Support; Corrective & Preventative; Perfective & Adaptive?
¨ What defect densities are being experienced?
¨ How do we compare to other organisations in the same industry?

The ISBSG M&S repository data is an excellent tool to find answers to these questions. 

The M&S Industry Data 

The ISBSG Software Maintenance & Support repository has over 350 applications. This data can be used to improve management performance of software portfolio maintenance and support.

The repository now has sufficient applications for ISBSG to offer a free benchmark report for each application that is submitted. If you submit data for multiple applications to the repository you will be rewarded with free ISBSG products.

The Maintenance & Support data can be licensed. It is available in Excel spreadsheet format delivered via email in a ZIP file.

Submit Data

The ISBSG plans to reach 1,000 applications in the M&S repository by June 2009. Please help us to achieve this objective by submitting some of your applications. Anonymity and security are guaranteed by the ISBSG's process that ensures that the identity of contributors remains confidential. This prevents the users of the ISBSG data from identifying submitters.

We recommend the following steps to submit data and receive your free benchmark report:

1.  On-line Maintenance & Support data entry facility available - you can now enter M&S data on-line,

or

   Download a copy of the Maintenance & Support Data Collection Questionnaire, even if you plan to submit on-line, as it provides important explanations, descriptions and a glossary of terms.

Free example of an Application Benchmark Report
Free copy of the ISBSG analysis of the M&S data suite Release 2
Submit data and receive free
ISBSG products

News

Release 3 of Maintenance & Support data available
October 2008

Release 3 of Industry data for Maintenance & Support applications is now available...

On-line Maintenance & Support data entry facility available
August 2008
You can now enter M&S data on-line.  Enter your data and receive a free benchmark report...

The ISBSG continues to develop its M&S metrics
July 2008
We welcome your input. Download the free guidelines for M&S derived metrics...

Planning a software metrics program?
July 2008
The free Maintenance & Support Data Collection Questionnaire will help...
 

"ISBSG data is a valuable asset for the software industry and for all companies that produce software."

Capers Jones

 

 

 

 

 

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