Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study
Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt, TechDebt 2021, Page: 74-83
2021
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- Citations10
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- Usage13
- Downloads10
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Conference Paper 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 business-driven 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.
Bibliographic Details
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85114801235&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/techdebt52882.2021.00017; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9462985/; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8942; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9945&context=sis_research
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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