Software change information for maintenance management

Proper management is an important factor in reducing the cost of software maintenance. Until now, well practiced and proven methods of management could not be applied to software maintenance due to the lack of visibility of the tasks and their outcomes. Increased visibility and predictive methods are required if the maintenance of large systems is to be brought under proper control. SCIMM (software change information for maintenance management) is a prototype system under development to help in this area. SCIMM stores information about requests for changes and changes made to software systems, with a view to easy access and retrieval of data and the provision of analysis to aid managers in prediction and planning