TechDebt 2017 Presentations

This file contains sessions and presentations from the Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, held in conjunction with the 18th International XP Conference (XP 2017) in Cologne, Germany.

Sessions and presentations included:

*An Investigation of Technical Debt in Automatic Production Systems, Terese Besker, Antonio Martini, Jan Bosch, and Matthias Tichy
*Assessing Code Smell Interest Probability: A Case Study, Sofia Charalampidou, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, and Paris Avgeriou
*Changes and Challenges of Technical Debt and Its Management During Ongoing Digital Transformation, Jesse Yli-Huumo and Kari Smolander
*Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt: Report on the MTD 2017 Workshop, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Wolfgang Trumler, Clemente Izurieta, and Robert Nord
*Revisiting Context-Based Code Smells Prioritization: On Supporting Referred Context, Natthawute Sae-Lim, Shinpei Hayashi, and Motoshi Saeki 
*Selling the Business Case for Architectural Debt Reduction, Eltjo Poort
*Technical Debt Interest Assessment: From Issues to Project, Antonio Martini, Jan Bosch, Simon Vajda, Rajesh Vasa, Allan Jones, Mohammed Abdelrazek, and John Grundy 
*The Magnificent Seven: Towards a Systematic Estimation of the Technical Debt Interest, Antonio Martini and Jan Bosch
*Towards Triaging Code-Smell Candidates via Scenarios and Method-Call Dependencies, Thorsten Haendler, Stefan Sobernig, and Mark Strembeck 
*Who Is Producing More Technical Debt? A Personalized Assessment of TD Principal, Theodoros Amanatidis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, and Ioannis Stamelos



Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt: Report on the MTD 2017 Workshop, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Wolfgang Trumler, Clemente Izurieta, and Robert Nord

This paper summarizes the proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt, collocated with the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2017) in Cologne. The technical debt research community continues to expand through collaborations of industry, tool vendors, and academia. The main topic of this year's workshop was on the impact of agile development approaches towards the management of technical debt.




Selling the Business Case for Architectural Debt Reduction, Eltjo Poort

Reducing technical debt that manifests itself in code quality issues is now common practice in most organizations. Architectural debt, however, which cannot be measured in the code, is a different story. Reducing architectural technical debt requires specific investments and is often a hard sell. Technical debt reduction is always an "under the hood" improvement, an enabler that adds business value only indirectly—and not by adding cool new stuff, but by cleaning up a mess that somehow came into being. It is not enough to make organizations understand architectural debt: they need to be pushed into timely action. The key to selling the business case for architectural debt reduction is anticipation: start managing stakeholder expectations in time, use economic arguments, and architect your time dimension. I will present failure and success stories from CGI's architects and gather lessons learned in three golden rules to help sell your business case for architectural debt reduction.




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