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Many organizations were forced to deal with significant changes to their software inventory and expended considerable funds accomplishing the needed tasks. Software systems are developed and evolve; they are not static. The last phase of the software engineering lifecycle, operation and maintenance, often takes the majority of life cycle funds. It is therefore prudent to possess software maintenance plans and procedures to contain life cycle costs, and to operate an efficient organization.  \nSoftware Engineering Process Technology (SEPT) in conjunction with the noted Software Maintenance expert Thomas Pigoski has developed this template for a Software Maintenance Plan to aid the software engineer in implementing software maintenance requirements. This template is easy to use, self-explanatory, and does not require expensive training or extensive experience.  \nAbout Software Maintenance  \nSoftware maintenance is the totality of activities required to provide cost-effective support to a software system. Activities are performed during the pre-delivery stage as well as the post-delivery stage. Pre-delivery activities include planning for post-delivery operations, supportability, and logistics determination. Post-delivery activities include software modification, training, and operating a help desk.  \nHow to use this Document  \nThis document is designed to aid a person with limited knowledge of software maintenance requirements and methods to plan for software maintenance of a project or system. This template may be applied to manual or automated (computer processes) methods and can be easily implemented by one or more persons. It is applicable to small, highly critical 10-line software programs and to programs over 1 million lines of code.  \nOrganizational Requirements  \nMaintenance is performed by the developer, a separate maintainer, or by a third-party organization. It is important that the organization responsible for maintenance be identified in writing with full responsibilities. The Maintenance Plan accomplishes this. The maintainer should develop the Maintenance Plan as well as the supporting procedures. Since software maintenance activities invoke the use of organizational resources, it is recommended that the highest level of management in the organization approves ofthis undertaking and approves the final version of the plan and the procedures. Other functions that should also review and approve this plan include Software Quality Assurance, Software Engineering, Software Testing, Project Management (when applicable), the organization’s Software Configuration Management Function (when applicable), and the customer (when applicable) .  \nThis template’s illustrative text is designed for use as is, by stripping the tutorial notations underlined in the text. The text can also be modified for requirements and guidance to meet organizational needs, and unique environments. It is not a requirement to use the paragraph numbers contained in this document and additional comments are encouraged whenever appropriate to fully comply with an organizations’ specific requirements. This template is applicable to all types of software from information technology, commercial, scientific, and other non-business applications (such as creating a complex web site) . The user of this template should spell out all of the issues that are prevailing regarding the need for software maintenance prior to tailoring the template to ascertain that all such organizational issues are addressed.  \nReference Software Configuration Management Standards  \nInternational Standards  \n∙ ISO/IEC 12207 – 1995. Software Engineering-Software Life Cycle Processes.  \n∙ ISO/IEC 14764 – 1999. 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