TY - NEWS
TI - On the relationship between technical debt management and process models
AU - Rios, Nicolli
AU - Freire, Savio
AU - Perez, Boris
AU - Castellanos, Camilo
AU - Correal, Dario
AU - Mendonca, Manoel
AU - Falessi, Davide
AU - Izurieta, Clemente
AU - Seaman, Carolyn B.
AU - Oliveira Spinola, Rodrigo
AB - —As technical debt (TD) potentially occurs as a result of poor decisions that affect
software development tasks, one might expect that practitioners following different process
models, such as agile, hybrid or traditional, will perceive and manage the effects of TD
differently. This study investigates the potential relationship between development process
models and TD effects and their management by surveying 432 practitioners from software
organizations in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and the United States. Results indicate that, although
opinions about debt prevention and repayment are the same regardless of the process model,
there are differences in how practitioners monitor and feel the effects of TD. Development
teams can use our findings to have a clearer view of the possible effects and managerial
influence of TD in their projects for each type of process model.
DA - 2021-02-10
KW - technical debt
KW - effects of technical debt
KW - technical debt management
KW - process models
PB - IEEE Software
UR - https://repositorio.ufps.edu.co/handle/ufps/1464
ER -