Departmentalization in software development and maintenance

  • Authors:
  • E. Burton Swanson;Cynthia Mathis Beath

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Los Angeles;Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of three alternative bases for systems staff departmentalization suggests the benefits of an organizational form in which maintenance is separate from new system development.