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What's behind tight deadlines? Business causes of technical debtNIER paper
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 experienced practitioners and did a thematic analysis of the open-ended answers to the question: “Could you give examples of how business may contribute to technical debt?” Business-related causes were organized into two categories: pure-business and business/IT gap, and they were related to ‘tight deadlines’ and ‘features over quality’, the most frequently cited management reasons for technical debt. We contribute a cause-effect model which relates the various business causes of tight deadlines and the behavior of prioritizing features over quality aspects.
Sun 14 MayDisplayed time zone: Hobart change
Sun 14 May
Displayed time zone: Hobart change
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11:00 20mTalk | Post-pandemic Resilience of Hybrid Software TeamsFull Paper Research Track Ronnie de Souza Santos Cape Breton University, Gianisa Adisaputri Dalhousie University, Paul Ralph Dalhousie University Pre-print | ||
11:20 20mTalk | On the perceived relevance of critical internal quality attributes when evolving software featuresFull Paper Research Track Eduardo Fernandes Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) Pre-print | ||
11:40 20mTalk | What's behind tight deadlines? Business causes of technical debtNIER paper Research Track Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida Federal University of Paraiba, Christoph Treude University of Melbourne, Uirá Kulesza Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Pre-print | ||
12:00 20mTalk | Accounting for socio-technical resilience in software engineeringNIER paper Research Track Tamara Lopez The Open University, Helen Sharp The Open University, Michel Wermelinger The Open University, Melanie Langer Lancaster University, Mark Levine Lancaster University, Caroline Jay Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom, Yijun Yu The Open University, UK, Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK; Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland Pre-print | ||