The long lifetime and the evolving nature of industrial products make them subject to technical debt at different levels. Despite multiple years of research on technical debt management, our industrial experience shows that introducing systematic technical debt management in a large-scale company is very challenging. To identify the challenges, we provide a conceptual framework for holistic debt management across the product development value stream, which takes multiple categories of debt and their interplays into account.We use this framework to identify multiple challenges that are still open to be explored by the research community. Due to the practical nature of technical debt management, we believe this paper can guide the research community on the needs of industry for the effective application of technical debt management in practice.
翻译:尽管对技术债务管理进行了多年的研究,但我们的工业经验表明,在大型公司采用系统的技术债务管理非常具有挑战性。为了查明挑战,我们为产品开发价值流的整体债务管理提供了一个概念框架,其中考虑到多种类型的债务及其相互作用。我们利用这个框架来确定研究界仍然可以探讨的多种挑战。由于技术债务管理的实际性质,我们认为这份文件可以指导研究界了解工业在实际中有效运用技术债务管理的需要。