Software Maintenance Services on a Managed Monthly Delivery Plan

Keep your live web, mobile and backend applications fast, secure and up to date, legacy systems included. Through the Delivery Plan, you get one team, one predictable monthly price and one prioritised backlog. Add mobile, web, backend, AI, data, QA or DevOps work to the same backlog whenever you need it.

Onboarding starts immediately after checkout14-day first-delivery guaranteeYou own the code and the documentation

Use your plan for software maintenance and support.

Delivery Plan · Core
Your backlog. Delivered.
One plan. Every development priority.
Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthWas $8,000£6,700R140,000
Save $3,500£2,950R61,000/moOne active workstream
14DAYSFirst deliverable in 14 days or your first month is free.
One delivery owner
Unlimited queue
100% your code and IP
Live in Scrums.com
First monthUS$500 AI Catalog credits
Annual plansUS$10,000 specialist services
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Onboarding starts at checkout · Billed monthly, excl. VAT

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48 hoursTo first code in production
< 2 hrsCritical issue response, on one active request at a time
94%Client renewal rate
How we define these ↓
Scrums.com Platform

Track every incident, fix and release on the Scrums.com Platform

Goals break down into tasks. Milestones are agreed before work begins. You track every incident, patch and release from alert to verified fix, and the next task starts the moment one ships.

Scrums.com Platform / delivery board
Requirement9
SEC-311est 24hrs
Patch a critical CVE in the auth library
SUP3 pts
APP-142est 40hrs
iOS beta compatibility update
Mobile5 pts
API-219est 32hrs
Tune slow database queries on orders
Backend5 pts
OPS-177est 24hrs
Backup restore test and DR runbook
DevOps3 pts
Delivering1
SUP-408day 3/6
Fix the payment webhook state defectSUP
  • Root cause logged
  • Fix tested in staging
  • Code review approved
  • Released with rollback ready
MaintenancePR #2114
Gate
Live38
SUP-407✓ live
Error-rate alerts on the checkout API
Maintenance · just now
WEB-096✓ live
Payment gateway API version update
Web · 3d ago
APP-139✓ live
Crash fix for the Android release
Mobile · 5d ago
SUP-401✓ live
Monthly maintenance report, September
Maintenance · 8d ago
Illustrative demo with sample data. On the Scrums.com Platform, the board shows your own goals, tasks and releases.

How the software maintenance and support process works

01Queue your maintenance workPick maintenance scopes or describe your own.
02SubscribeCheck out and onboarding starts immediately.
03First code in production in 48 hoursAccess to your repos, monitoring and environments.
04Monitor, fix, patch, repeatTrack every incident and fix on the Scrums.com Platform.
Scope and capacity

What one workstream delivers, for maintenance or any software

Your backlog can hold any number of requests, but the team delivers them one workstream at a time. A workstream is one managed team working on your highest-priority request until it is live, then starting the next. More requests mean more months, not faster delivery. Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity. The same plan covers mobile, web, backend, AI, data, QA and DevOps work, so all of it can share one backlog.

Active at once
One request
Onboarding
Week 1
To first code in production
48 hours
Code owned by
You

Example: software maintenance on one workstream

Illustrative
  1. Month 1Onboarding and system assessment: codebase, architecture and infrastructure reviewed, technical debt mapped, monitoring set up, and SLAs and communication protocols defined.
  2. Month 2Proactive monitoring and incident response: priority-based triage, root-cause analysis, fixes tested in staging, security patches and dependency updates.
  3. Month 3Planned maintenance and optimisation: performance tuning, technical debt reduction, backup verification, then the first quarterly strategic review.

A sample maintenance programme. It matches the week-one onboarding and the 2 to 4 weeks a takeover of software built by other teams typically takes. Onboarding starts immediately after checkout, and your delivery owner scopes your own plan with you.

What affects the number of months

  • System sizeThe number of applications, services, integrations and environments to maintain.
  • Starting stateTechnical debt, documentation and existing monitoring set how much work comes first.
  • Technology ageLegacy stacks such as .NET Framework, Java EE, COBOL and mainframe systems add work.
  • PlatformsWeb apps, iOS and Android apps, and third-party integrations each add upkeep.
  • ComplianceSOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA upkeep and audit trails add documentation work.
  • Review and approvalsHow quickly your team agrees priorities and approves releases to production.
See the maintenance scopes you can queue →
Capabilities

Application maintenance services: monitoring, fixes, patches, performance and mobile upkeep.

Application maintenance under response SLAs

24/7 monitoring · incident response · RCA

Continuous monitoring of application health, performance, error rates and infrastructure, with AI-powered anomaly detection and automated alerts. Bugs, crashes and user-reported issues are reproduced, root-caused, fixed and deployed under priority-based SLAs.

When it fitsFrequent downtime or performance issues hit your users and your revenue.
Trade-offsResponse SLAs are defined during onboarding. Non-urgent tasks are scheduled through regular sprint planning.
How the plan covers it
24/7 application and infrastructure monitoring
Priority-based triage with root-cause analysis on every fix
Production deployment with rollback capability
Postmortems and prevention plans for critical incidents
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What's included in software maintenance and support

Monitoring, fixes, patches and upkeep. Managed together.

Every Delivery Plan · Core comes with the full maintenance team and the tooling around it: monitoring, incident response, security patching and planned upkeep, run by one delivery owner. Mobile app maintenance services for iOS and Android apps use the same backlog.

Hands type on a mobile phone
Delivery managementOne accountable delivery owner.Milestones agreed before work begins.
01Onboarding and system assessmentCodebase, architecture and infrastructure reviewed, technical debt mapped and a baseline set
0224/7 monitoringNew Relic, Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch or Application Insights, or your existing stack
03Incident responsePriority-based triage, root-cause analysis and fixes deployed with rollback capability
04Security patchingCVE monitoring, dependency updates and patches tested in staging before production
05Mobile app upkeepCrash triage, OS compatibility updates and store compliance for iOS and Android
06Performance and technical debtQuery tuning, caching, refactoring and debt reduction in scheduled windows
07Infrastructure supportServer updates, backups, disaster recovery and infrastructure-as-code upkeep
08ReportingWeekly health reports, monthly maintenance reports and quarterly strategic reviews
10Code and documentation ownershipAll fixes, runbooks and documentation are yours from day one.
100%

A fix is not the finish line.

Prevention plansPostmortems and prevention plans for critical incidents, so issues do not repeat.
Documented workRoot cause, fix, testing and deployment notes recorded for every activity.
Runbooks kept currentSystem documentation, runbooks and architecture diagrams kept up to date.
Quarterly reviewsSystem health trends, roadmap alignment, scalability planning and SLA performance.
Runs on the Scrums.com platform

Every Delivery Plan runs on the Enterprise AI Platform for software engineering.

Your team, its AI agents and your delivery data sit on one governed platform. That is what powers your delivery board, the monitoring and code-review agents, and the talent bench behind your plan.

What your maintenance team draws on, already part of your planBrowse the full AI catalog →
Engineering talentTalent

Maintenance engineers and teams

Backend, mobile and DevOps engineers from the Scrums.com bench, across modern and legacy stacks, matched to your system and domain.

AI Catalog304 items

Agents, MCPs and models for maintenance

The monitoring, code-review and release agents that run alongside your team, plus the MCP servers they use, such as Sentry MCP Server and Datadog MCP Server.

AI infrastructure512 items

Infrastructure for monitoring and environments

Monitoring, staging environments and AI infrastructure, deployable from the catalog with your $500 first-month credits.

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One maintenance hire covers one role. The plan covers the whole team.

Maintenance needs monitoring, incident response, security patching, performance and infrastructure work. Hiring covers them one role at a time. The Delivery Plan covers them in one monthly price.

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RecommendedScrums.com Delivery Plan · Core
In-house maintenance engineer
Traditional managed service provider
Roles covered
Monitoring, fixes, patches, performance, infrastructure
One role per hire
Often lacks software development expertise
Time to start
48 hours to first code in production
A hiring cycle first
Proposal and contract cycle first
How you pay
Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 / month, one plan price
Salary, benefits and recruiting fees
Project quotes and change requests
Who runs delivery
One accountable delivery owner
You manage the work
The provider's service manager
Visibility
Every incident, fix and release on the Scrums.com Platform
Your own tooling
Reports by email
Basis: the figure that the current Scrums.com software maintenance and support page states against US and UK agencies. It is not a quote for your scope.
What you get

Why companies choose managed software maintenance and support services

01

Prevention first

AI agents flag bottlenecks and degrading trends early, cutting emergency fixes by 60%.

02

One monthly price

One plan price for monitoring, fixes, patches and upkeep. Your scope sets the number of months.

03

Engineers first

Maintenance engineers are engineers first. They learn your codebase and business logic.

04

Modern and legacy stacks

Node.js, React, Python and .NET, plus .NET Framework, Java EE, COBOL and mainframe systems.

05

One view of your system

System health, incidents, performance and maintenance work in one view, with Jira, GitHub, AWS and your monitoring connected.

06

Clients stay

A 94% client renewal rate, because maintenance prevents problems, not just reacts to them.

Customers

Software maintenance and support case studies

Teams are matched to your system, across modern and legacy stacks, web and mobile apps, and your monitoring tools.

Subscription health platform stabilised for Health-e Simplified, delivered by Scrums.com
Featured maintenance case study

Stabilizing a subscription health platform

Challenge
Health-e Simplified runs a live subscription health app. Paying users did not always get access, Meta SDK tracking broke, and technical debt grew while the backend needed a rebuild.
Platforms and technologies
Paystack payment flows, RevenueCat subscriptions, webhooks, the Meta SDK, Google Analytics, Firebase and CI/CD pipelines.
Work delivered
Subscription and payment fixes, attribution recovery, CI/CD health checks and deployment validation, one technical debt item per sprint, and a backend rebuild while the platform stayed live.
Result
Subscription reliability significantly improved. Less manual support, fewer user complaints and restored confidence in campaign data.
Read the Health-e Simplified case study →
Scopes

Software maintenance and support scopes you can queue

One Delivery Plan · Core covers your development priorities across services. Start with maintenance, then queue mobile, web, backend, AI or data scopes on the same backlog, or describe your own.

Maintenance scopes
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Scope

After-Hours Support SLA

Round-the-clock operational support for live software, combining your daytime team with a dedicated overnight team under per-client runbooks.

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Scope

Codebase Quality Audit

Keep your applications at peak performance with proactive maintenance. From bug fixes to security checks and updates, we ensure reliability, uptime, and long-term scalability.

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Sprint

Critical Application Rescue

Stabilize a failing, broken, or abandoned application, restore reliable operation, and create a prioritized path forward.

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Sprint

Customer Support Platform Integration

Connect product users and events to a support platform for tickets, context, identity, and automated actions. Finish state: agents seeing full customer context and acting without tab-switching.

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Managed SLA

Dependency Patrol

Continuous dependency, CVE, and patch management under SLA: vulnerabilities monitored across your codebases, patches prioritized and applied with tests, supply-chain checks on every update, and compliance-ready evidence.

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Managed SLA

Mobile App OS Update & Store Compliance SLA

SLA-backed upkeep of shipped mobile apps: quarterly OS compatibility updates ahead of Apple and Google launches, store compliance management, crash triage with critical fixes inside 48 hours, and security patching.

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Managed SLA

Observability Watch

Managed monitoring and alert response on your telemetry: a team that watches your dashboards, responds to alerts, keeps instrumentation current, and reports reliability monthly — MTTD and MTTR owned, not hoped for.

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Scope

Platform Maintenance SLA

Keep your applications at peak performance with proactive maintenance. From bug fixes to security checks and updates, we ensure reliability, uptime, and long-term scalability.

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Sprint

Release Backlog Burn-Down Sprint

Deliver a prioritized set of small production-ready changes that have accumulated behind a constrained delivery team.

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Sprint

Technical Debt Reduction Sprint

Remove a defined cluster of high-cost technical debt tied to reliability, speed, maintainability, or developer friction.

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Managed SLA

Uptime & Incident SLA

24/7 production support under tiered SLAs: critical incidents answered inside 2 hours, high-priority inside 24 — with AI-powered anomaly detection, engineer-led response, and prevention work that cuts repeat incidents.

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Managed SLA

Web Estate Maintenance

SLA-backed upkeep across your whole web estate — marketing sites, web apps, and internal tools: security and dependency updates, performance upkeep, and a 99.9% uptime SLA, regardless of who built each property.

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0 scopes on your backlog · one active workstream at a timeStart your plan with this backlog →
The plan in full

Software maintenance and support pricing

Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your system’s scope determines the delivery schedule and total cost. You can use the same subscription for other development priorities.

Best for companies whose internal team is maxed out on new features, whose downtime hits users and revenue, or who inherited legacy software with limited documentation.

Delivery Plan · Core

One plan for your software backlog.

Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ monthWas $8,000£6,700R140,000
One active workstream. Managed delivery.
Coverage
Start your Delivery Plan →
Billed monthly · excl. VAT/sales tax · onboarding starts immediately after checkout
Included every month
Delivery owner. One accountable owner runs your maintenance, mobile and DevOps engineers.
One backlog across your development priorities. You set the order; requests are scoped and delivered one workstream at a time.
Visibility. Milestones agreed up front. Incidents, fixes and releases live on the Scrums.com Platform.
Ownership. Code, fixes, runbooks and documentation are yours from day one, with handover included.

Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.

First-month benefits
14DAYS
First-delivery guaranteeYour first agreed deliverable ships within 14 days of scope and access being confirmed, or your first month is free.
$500 in AI infrastructure catalog creditsMONTH 1
Annual-plan benefits$10,000 in specialist services
Technical Assessment & Delivery RoadmapWe review your systems, rank your priorities and agree the first deliverable.
CI/CD & Quality Pipeline SetupYour pipelines, environments and quality checks, set up and handed over to you.
You buy monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed project price. Infrastructure usage and third-party services are billed separately. Full Delivery Plan coverage and terms →
Need more parallel workstreams? Talk to us →
Day 0Scope and access confirmedOnboarding starts at checkout. You confirm scope and share repos, monitoring and environments.
Within 48 hoursFirst code in productionFirst change merged and deployed through your pipeline.
Within 14 daysFirst agreed deliverable shipsFor example the first prioritised production fixes released, with root causes logged.
If it does not shipYour first month is freeYou do not pay for month one.
The first deliverable is agreed in writing before the clock starts. The clock starts when scope and access are confirmed. Applies to the first deliverable on a new plan.Read the full Delivery Plan terms →
FAQ

Software maintenance and support questions, answered

Still deciding? Talk to sales and get a scoped answer for your system.

Delivery Plan · Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000 a month, excluding VAT or sales tax. That buys one active workstream with a managed maintenance team. It is monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed price for a complete maintenance programme, so your scope sets the number of months.

SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT · SORTED

Software that stays up, patched and fast.

Delivery Plan · Core: one monthly price, one backlog across your development priorities, one active workstream and a managed team for monitoring, fixes, security patches and mobile app upkeep.

MONITORING · FIXES · PATCHES · PERFORMANCE · UPKEEP