Comment by BurningFrog
4 years ago
Ideally, the fact that you're working on internal maintenance shouldn't even be known to external customers.
My rule of thumb is that 1/3 of engineering time needs to be spent on maintenance.
4 years ago
Ideally, the fact that you're working on internal maintenance shouldn't even be known to external customers.
My rule of thumb is that 1/3 of engineering time needs to be spent on maintenance.
You should add an additional rule that another 1/3 of the time will need added on maintenance for the 1/3rd of the time spent on new features.
1/3 = adding new features.
1/3 = maintaining the security posture of the application and keeping it up to date.
1/3 = spent figuring out why the new features blew up in the field after passing all testing.