Before discussing the means of cutting costs on software maintenance, let’s figure out the significant factors that influence these costs. We can distinguish adaptive, corrective, and perfective software maintenance activities according to the type of problem you want to solve.

Sooner or later there comes a time when the shortcomings of the legacy software outweigh its usefulness for a certain company. And it’s quite important to interpret the wake-up calls correctly to proceed with software modernization until it becomes too late.

SaaS or Software as a Service is a system which is maintained by the third-party provider, and a customer pays for the functionality needed for doing business. SaaS does not require installation on the local hardware as is supported by the supplier remotely.

There are many project management metrics that describe the overall picture from different perspectives. Among them, you can find productivity metrics and quality metrics. You can focus on those project metrics that will enable new resource management opportunities according to your needs.

Front-end development involves not just writing code. All the content, images, elements reflecting on a website is the responsibility of a developer building a client-facing part. It’s about writing a code which would interact with users properly, ensuring the seamless user experience.

It may seem that code review is not rocket science, and you can’t achieve more than superficial code improvements by applying it. But despite the apparent simplicity of the code review process, it can bring multiple essential enhancements. 

Any sphere sooner or later becomes an object for myths and rumors from those who have nothing to do with it. These legends cruise from one person to another and in the end take the shape of something global. Below are the most popular myths about the sphere of software development:

Legacy system integration is a solution allowing to overcome described drawbacks. The main idea behind legacy system integration is to expose your current system’s data to the enterprise-wide software solution or the cloud that can be achieved through APIs.

MVP is the first version of the product which possesses only core functionality to reach the business goal.

POC can be determined as a small project created for testing the important hypotheses before the actual development process.