Maintainability Maintainability

Maintainability - Definition and Overview

In telecommunication, the term maintainability has the following meanings:

  1. A characteristic of design and installation, expressed as the probability that an item will be retained in or restored to a specified condition within a given period of time, when the maintenance is performed in accordance with prescribed procedures and resources.
  2. The ease with which maintenance of a functional unit can be performed in accordance with prescribed requirements.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

See also

Example Usage of Maintainability
ReliableSuccess: #MaintJobs Reliability & Maintainability (RM) /Integrated Logistics at Triumph Group (Park City, UT): Reliability ... http://bit.ly/08o4xMp
OlafLewitz: "Quality, Maintainability, reusability, and many of the other -ilities." Love that. Found in @mikewcohn's Succeding with Agile.
tscalzott: @garethkitson @vseanclark One user requirement might be Maintainability by small IT staff :-)
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