Research notes: Information systems development, maintenance and enhancement: findings from a UK study

This paper reports on some of the findings from a study of systems development and maintenance in UK. This study is the first part of an ongoing research project which seeks to understand and enhance the flexibility of information systems such that they will be more adaptable and easy to change as new requirements are encountered over the life of a system. This paper reports on the first stage of the research and looks at systems development and maintenance in general terms and then at the types and reasons for changing and enhancing systems