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A portfolio approach to technical debt management

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Yuepu Guo,

Carolyn SeamanAuthors Info & Claims

MTD '11: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Managing Technical Debt

Pages 31 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/1985362.1985370

Published: 23 May 2011 Publication History

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Technical debt describes the effect of immature software artifacts on software maintenance - the potential of extra effort required in future as if paying interest for the incurred debt. The uncertainty of interest payment further complicates the problem of what debt should be incurred or repaid and when. To help software managers make informed decisions, a portfolio approach is proposed in this paper. The approach leverages the portfolio management theory in the finance domain to determine the optimal collection of technical debt items that should be incurred or held. We expect this approach could provide a new perspective for technical debt management.

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A portfolio approach to technical debt management
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
    2. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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MTD '11: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Managing Technical Debt

May 2011

54 pages

ISBN:9781450305860

DOI:10.1145/1985362

Program Chairs:
Ipek Ozkaya
Software Engineering Institute, USA
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Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
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Rod Nord
Software Engineering Institute, USA
,
Nanette Brown
Software Engineering Institute, USA

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