IWTD 2013 - International Workshop on Technical debt

Dennis Mancl, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Steven D. Fraser, Cisco Systems, USA
Bill Opdyke, JP Morgan Chase, USA
Technical debt is an unavoidable part of software development in today's fast-paced market.
Technical debt is the result of deliberate design decisions. Schedule pressure and other forces make it necessary to create "quick and dirty" code, with the expectation of improving the code later. When technical debt accumulates, the cost of software maintenance and new feature development begins to increase.
This workshop will explore the sources of technical debt and some of the best practices for keeping technical debt under control. If we believe that technical debt is an important issue in long-term software product development, do we have ways to keep the technical debt from causing development gridlock? The workshop will discuss some approaches to taking on technical debt from systems large and small.
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