The IT Backlog in the Age of DevOps Services - Fourbrick Technology
D evOps and the implementation of more no-code and low-code applications are changing the way organizations approach software development. Does software maintenance need to change, too? For the past 20 years, the average software lifespan has been between six to eight years. This is in sharp contrast to mobile apps, which lose half of their lives in the first six months of use or the DevOps/Agile world, where apps are continuously undergoing change to the point where keeping logs of future enhancement requests is hardly necessary. This begs the question: Is the IT backload and application maintenance relevant anymore? Software maintenance, largely comprised of chipping away at application enhancement request backlogs, has historically consumed half of IT application developers’ time. It would follow that dramatically reducing these backlogs would warm most CIOs’ hearts. The IT Enhancement Request Backlog The IT applications enhancement request backlog is a list of al...