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From: locke@paradyne.com (Richard Locke)
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Subject: Re: Question about Allocating Resources: Engineering vs. Support
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Date: 30 Jan 91 12:48:49 GMT
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In article <14636@june.cs.washington.edu> bnfb@june.cs.washington.edu (Bjorn Freeman-Benson) writes:

>Given a staffing level of N for a development cycle, what
>should the staffing level for maintainance and support be?

SPR's tools "SPQR/20" and "Checkpoint" estimate both development effort
and maintenance effort.  I don't know exactly what goes into the tool's
estimates.


-dick