Software Engineering

13.3.5 
Assess software sustainment challenges
The software engineering team involves representatives of the software sustainment 
team to ensure that the architectural configuration and design mechanisms provide 
a context for customer and product support. The software sustainment representa-
tives must sanction the structural design solution declaring it may be maintained, 
within established sustainment plans, resources, and schedule constraints.
The baseline work plan for software product sustainment may include the effort 
to provide customer support, help-desk operations, design deficiency resolution and 
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I. Once the initial software development effort is completed, the software sustain-
ment team may be augmented by authoritative software engineering and implemen-
tation personnel to supervise significant software product enhancements.