Why (and How) Should Technical Debt be Managed?

Abstract

What is technical debt? Its definition and relationship to defects and vulnerabilities . Misconceptions of what technical debt is. Detecting and making technical debt visible. Resolving technical debt items. Technical debt within the acquisition lifecycle.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1163043

Entities

People

  • Ipek Ozkaya

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Cost Overruns
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Guarantees
  • Materials
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Software Testing
  • Technical Debt
  • Universities
  • Vulnerability

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).