Establishing a Framework for Managing Interest in Technical Debt

Areti Ampatzoglou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Paris Avgeriou, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou

2015

Abstract

Technical debt (TD) has gained significant attention over the past years. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, it has become attractive for both technical and management stakeholders, to acknowledge and discuss issues related to decayed design-time qualities over time, and their corresponding consequences. Until now, despite the inherent relevance of technical debt management to economics, the TD research community has not sufficiently exploited economical methods/models. Therefore, in this paper we present a framework for managing interest in technical debt, founded on top of well-known economic theories (i.e., Loanable Funds and Liquidity Preference Theory) and current TD research. Specifically, in our framework, we will discuss aspects related to technical debt interest, such as: types of TD interest, TD interest characteristics, and a proposed TD interest theory. Finally, in order to boost the amount of empirical studies in TD research, we will propose several tentative research designs that could be used for exploring the notion of interest in technical debt practice.

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Ampatzoglou A., Ampatzoglou A., Avgeriou P. and Chatzigeorgiou A. (2015). Establishing a Framework for Managing Interest in Technical Debt . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-111-3, pages 75-85. DOI: 10.5220/0005885700750085


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@conference{bmsd15,
author={Areti Ampatzoglou and Apostolos Ampatzoglou and Paris Avgeriou and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou},
title={Establishing a Framework for Managing Interest in Technical Debt},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2015},
pages={75-85},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005885700750085},
isbn={978-989-758-111-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Establishing a Framework for Managing Interest in Technical Debt
SN - 978-989-758-111-3
AU - Ampatzoglou A.
AU - Ampatzoglou A.
AU - Avgeriou P.
AU - Chatzigeorgiou A.
PY - 2015
SP - 75
EP - 85
DO - 10.5220/0005885700750085