2021/04/19 by Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida, Christoph Treude, de Almeida, Rodrigo Rebouças +3 · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Big Data and Business Intelligence #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2104.09330
openalex publication_date 2021/04/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
What are the business causes behind tight deadlines? What drives the prioritization of features that pushes quality matters to the back burner? We conducted a survey with 71 experienced practitioners and did a thematic analysis of the open-ended answers to the question: ``Could you give examples of how business may contribute to technical debt?'' Business-related causes were organized into two categories: pure-business and business/IT gap, and they were related to `tight deadlines' and `features over quality', the most frequently cited management reasons for technical debt. We contribute a cause-effect model which relates the various business causes of tight deadlines and the behavior of prioritizing features over quality aspects.