The 60% Problem¶
Journal, A. T. (2026). The 60% Problem: Software Maintenance in 2026.
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Primes¶
- Coordination-Overhead Inversion
- Software documentation: doc-of-doc patterns — style guides, doc-review processes, doc-platform maintenance, doc-strategy committees — can consume more engineering time than the documented engineering.
This sourceDocuments that documentation creation and maintenance is itself a substantial, often-burdensome engineering cost, with multi-level documentation upkeep viewed as overly burdensome by developers. (Resolves needs-source-804 for documentation overhead consuming engineering time; the explicit recursive 'doc-of-doc' apparatus — doc-strategy committees, doc-review processes governing the docs — is weakly supported, see flag. Trade-publication source, not peer-reviewed.)
- Software documentation: doc-of-doc patterns — style guides, doc-review processes, doc-platform maintenance, doc-strategy committees — can consume more engineering time than the documented engineering.
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