Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
5-2023
Abstract
What are the business causes behind tight deadlines? What drives the prioritization of features that pushes quality matters to the back burner? We conducted a survey with 71 experienced practitioners and did a thematic analysis of the openended answers to the question: “Could you give examples of how business may contribute to technical debt?” Business-related causes were organized into two categories: pure-business and business/IT gap, and they were related to ‘tight deadlines’ and ‘features over quality’, the most frequently cited management reasons for technical debt. We contribute a cause-effect model which relates the various business causes of tight deadlines and the behavior of prioritizing features over quality aspects.
Keywords
technical debt, technical debt management, software evolution, business
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 2023 May 14-15
First Page
25
Last Page
30
ISBN
9798350337341
Identifier
10.1109/CHASE58964.2023.00011
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Los Alamitos, CA
Citation
REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo; TREUDE, Christoph; and KULESZA, Uirá.
What's behind tight deadlines? Business causes of technical debt. (2023). Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 2023 May 14-15. 25-30.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8808
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE58964.2023.00011