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Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization
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 there is a misalignment between the prioritization
done by technical professionals and the prioritization expected by business
ones. This paper presents a business-driven approach to prioritize technical
debt items. The research is organized into four phases: exploratory, to
identify the research focus; concept verification, where the proposed approach
was evaluated on a multi-case study; solution, where a design science research
was conducted to develop Tracy, a framework for technical debt prioritization;
and validation. Results so far show that the business-driven prioritization of
technical debt items can improve the alignment and communication between the
technical and business stakeholders.Comment: Preprint submitted to the 35th International Conference on Software
Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'19) (Doctoral Symposium). arXiv admin note:
substantial text overlap with arXiv:1908.0015