Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2021

Abstract

Incorporating the business perspective into prioritizing technical debt is essential to contribute to decision making in industry. In this paper, we evolve and evaluate a businessdriven approach for technical debt prioritization. The approach was evaluated during a five-months industrial case study with business and technical stakeholders’ active participation. The results show that the approach contributed to aligning business criteria between the business and technical stakeholders. We also observed a downward trend in the amount of technical debt that affects high-value business assets. Moreover, we identified eight business factors that affect the decision making related to the prioritization of technical debt. The study results suggest that the proposed business-driven technical debt prioritization approach can help teams to focus their efforts on paying off the business’ most relevant debt.

Keywords

business driven technical debt, case study, technical debt, technical debt management, technical debt prioritization

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), Madrid, Spain, May 19-21

First Page

74

Last Page

83

ISBN

9781665414050

Identifier

10.1109/TechDebt52882.2021.00017

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TechDebt52882.2021.00017

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