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Using technical debt data in decision making: potential decision approaches

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MTD '12: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt

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Published: 05 June 2012 Publication History

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The management of technical debt ultimately requires decision making -- about incurring, paying off, or deferring technical debt instances. This position paper discusses several existing approaches to complex decision making, and suggests that exploring their applicability to technical debt decision making would be a worthwhile subject for further research.

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MTD '12: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt

June 2012

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Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Rod Nord
Software Engineering Institute
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Ipek Ozkaya
Software Engineering Institute
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Joost Visser
Software Improvement Group, Netherlands

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