Legacy programs, ie programs which have been developed with an outdated technology
make-up for the vast majority of programs in many user application environments. It is these …

Agile methods and product line engineering (PLE) have both proven successful in
increasing customer satisfaction and decreasing time to market under certain conditions …

Financial services organisations spend a significant amount of their IT budgets maintaining
legacy systems. This paper identifies the characteristics of legacy systems and explores why …

Background: Software systems must evolve in order to adapt in a timely fashion to the rapid
changes of stakeholder needs, technologies, business environment and society regulations …

The importance of software maintenance in managing the life-cycle costs of a system cannot
be overemphasized. Beyond a point, however, it is better to replace a system rather than …

Legacy programs, ie programs which have been developed with an outdated technology
make-up for the vast majority of programs in many user application environments. It is these …

The co-evolution of business processes and supporting software systems is needed for
keeping them aligned and it requires managerial and technological effort for adequately …

Business processes and existing software systems must be aligned so that software systems
can adequately support the business processes in order to be effectively used within them …

Software product lines are rarely developed from scratch. Instead the development of a
product line by reengineering existing systems is a more common scenario, which relies on …

Abstract The Indian Health Service provides care to remote and under-resourced
communities in the United States. American Indian/Alaska Native patients have some of the …