Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study

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...

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Main Authors: REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo, DO NASCIMENTO RIBEIRO, Rafael, TREUDE, Christoph, KULESZA, ‪Uirá
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-99452024-07-04T08:44:54Z Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo DO NASCIMENTO RIBEIRO, Rafael TREUDE, Christoph KULESZA, ‪Uirá 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. 2021-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8942 info:doi/10.1109/TechDebt52882.2021.00017 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9945/viewcontent/td21.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University business driven technical debt case study technical debt technical debt management technical debt prioritization Software Engineering
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topic business driven technical debt
case study
technical debt
technical debt management
technical debt prioritization
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case study
technical debt
technical debt management
technical debt prioritization
Software Engineering
REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo
DO NASCIMENTO RIBEIRO, Rafael
TREUDE, Christoph
KULESZA, ‪Uirá
Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study
description 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.
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author REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo
DO NASCIMENTO RIBEIRO, Rafael
TREUDE, Christoph
KULESZA, ‪Uirá
author_facet REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo
DO NASCIMENTO RIBEIRO, Rafael
TREUDE, Christoph
KULESZA, ‪Uirá
author_sort REBOUÇAS DE ALMEIDA, Rodrigo
title Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study
title_short Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study
title_full Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study
title_fullStr Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study
title_full_unstemmed Business-driven technical debt prioritization: An industrial case study
title_sort business-driven technical debt prioritization: an industrial case study
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2021
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8942
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9945/viewcontent/td21.pdf
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