Technical debt: towards a crisper definition report on the 4th international workshop on managing technical debt

P Kruchten, RL Nord, I Ozkaya, D Falessi - ACM SIGSOFT Software …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
As the pace of software delivery increases and technology rapidly changes, organizations
seek guidance on how to insure the sustainability of their software development effort. Over …

Measure it? manage it? ignore it? software practitioners and technical debt

NA Ernst, S Bellomo, I Ozkaya, RL Nord… - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
The technical debt metaphor is widely used to encapsulate numerous software quality
problems. The metaphor is attractive to practitioners as it communicates to both technical …

Trade-off decisions across time in technical debt management: a systematic literature review

C Becker, R Chitchyan, S Betz, C McCord - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Technical Debt arises from decisions that favour short-term outcomes at the cost of longer-
term disadvantages. They may be taken knowingly or based on missing or incomplete …

Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry

R Ramač, V Mandić, N Taušan, N Rios, S Freire… - Journal of Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Context: The technical debt (TD) metaphor describes actions made during various stages of
software development that lead to a more costly future regarding system maintenance and …

The sources and approaches to management of technical debt: a case study of two product lines in a middle-size finnish software company

J Yli-Huumo, A Maglyas, K Smolander - Product-Focused Software …, 2014 - Springer
Fierce competition in the software market forces companies to release their product under
tough time constraints. The competition makes companies reactive and they need to release …

Aligning technical debt prioritization with business objectives: A multiple-case study

RR De Almeida, U Kulesza, C Treude… - … and Evolution (ICSME …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor to describe the trade-off between short-term workarounds
and long-term goals in software development. Despite being widely used to explain …

Software architecture social debt: Managing the incommunicability factor

DA Tamburri - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Architectural technical debt is the additional project cost connected to technical issues
nested in software architectures. Similarly, many practitioners have already experienced that …

[PDF][PDF] Establishing a framework for managing interest in technical debt

A Ampatzoglou, A Ampatzoglou, P Avgeriou… - … on Business Modeling …, 2015 - scitepress.org
Technical debt (TD) has gained significant attention over the past years. Due to its
interdisciplinary nature, it has become attractive for both technical and management …

A financial approach for managing interest in technical debt

A Ampatzoglou, A Ampatzoglou, P Avgeriou… - Business Modeling and …, 2016 - Springer
Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor that is used by both technical and management
stakeholders to acknowledge and discuss issues related to compromised design-time …

[HTML][HTML] An initial theory to understand and manage requirements engineering debt in practice

J Frattini, D Fucci, D Mendez, R Spinola… - Information and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: Advances in technical debt research demonstrate the benefits of applying the
financial debt metaphor to support decision-making in software development activities …