{"id":264,"date":"2014-07-31T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finditez.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:27:02","slug":"boost-your-software-development-productivity-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/boost-your-software-development-productivity-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost your software development productivity, or else!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that <strong>75% of the Total Cost of Ownership for a software application<\/strong> over its useful lifespan <strong>is spent on enhancements<\/strong>? Enhancements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>perfective maintenance<\/strong> &#8211; adding new functionality to respond to changing business needs;<\/li>\n<li><strong>adaptive maintenance<\/strong> &#8211; porting to new hardware or a different\/new operating systems with no functional changes to keep pace with underlying technology advances;<\/li>\n<li><strong>corrective maintenance<\/strong> &#8211; bug fixes and corrupt data repair due to defects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research also shows that<strong> the average developer spends 50% of their time just scanning through code to understand and determine how or where to fix and change it<\/strong>. This integral part of the enhancement process is virtually an everyday software worker task called impact analysis.<\/p>\n<p>With some simple math, we can calculate the average time spent annually by a software developer on software change impact analysis as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>The average developer spends 75% of their time, or 2000 x .75 = 1500 hours a year working on enhancements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A typical software developer spends<\/strong> 50% of that time, or 1500 x .5 = <b>750 hours a year performing impact analysis<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the developer does not have the right tools to perform this task efficiently and accurately, that is costing you a whole lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Find it EZ is a productivity improvement tool designed specifically for change impact analysis.\u00a0\u00a0 With proven, reported savings of between 40% and 80% of time normally spent on analysis activities, software developers are able to do more, faster and with more accurate results leading to even more savings with better quality code delivered.\u00a0 <a title=\"Find it EZ savings calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.finditez.com\/products\/savings_calculator.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Calculate just how fast Find it EZ can pay for itself<\/a>, with ROI in as little as a single software enhancement ( within a week ), it really is that good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find it easy to save time and money!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 75% of the Total Cost of Ownership for a software application over its useful lifespan is spent on enhancements? Enhancements&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,26,27,28],"tags":[23,22],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boost-software-developer-productivity","category-pro-desktop","category-pro-server","category-365-enterprise","category-365-ultimate","tag-change-impact-analysis","tag-productivity-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/banner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finditeasy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}