How do I define a software maintenance plan?
Create a software maintenance plan for a business or for an individual computer user who does not have time for downtime. It should include all the software you rely on for daily operations (although there are some items that can be left out of the plan). This plan should be implemented as a buffer, and updates should not be directly sent to machines.Planning the OperationMake a list of all of your software applications and group each by usage and interdependency in a spreadsheet. You will find that it is essential to include some software applications in your maintenance plan, while many of them can be excluded. Apart from the name of the software and a brief description of what it does, one column would be taken up by dependencies. Another could show frequency of updates. Depending on the host system, these last two columns would have more or less importance. Certainly on a Linux-based system, the dependencies are very important, although to a large extent they are automatic on syste
