Managing Technical Debt

Abstract

Technical debt is a collection of design or implementation choices that are expedient in the short term, but that can make future changes more costly or impossible. Technical debt represents current and future liability whose impact is both on the quality of the system as well as overall project resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 17, 2021
Accession Number
AD1123234

Entities

People

  • Ipek Ozkaya

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artifacts
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Configuration Management
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Overruns
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Guarantees
  • Materials
  • New York
  • Project Management
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Technical Debt
  • Universities

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Systems Analysis and Design