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most citedBusiness-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study

21 citations · 22 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

What's behind tight deadlines? Business causes of technical debt

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Christoph Treude, Uirá Kulesza

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 experi…

cs.SE2020★ 21 cited

Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Rafael do Nascimento Ribeiro, Christoph Treude +1

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-…

cs.SE2019

Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida

Technical debt happens when teams take shortcuts on software development to gain short-term benefits at the cost of making future changes more expensive. Previous results show that…

cs.SE2019

Tracy: A Business-driven Technical Debt Prioritization Framework

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Christoph Treude, Uirá Kulesza

Technical debt is a pervasive problem in software development. Software development teams have to prioritize debt items and determine whether they should address debt or develop ne…

cs.SE2018

Aligning Technical Debt Prioritization with Business Objectives: A Multiple-Case Study

Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Uirá Kulesza, Christoph Treude +2

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 technic…