Background Enterprise Architecture Debt, EAD, has been defined as “the counterpart to Technical Debt” in the domain of Enterprise Architecture. Technical debt, TD, is a metaphor used in software development to describe various parts of the development lifecycle that causes higher costs and lower quality in the long run. As Seaman et al. describe it, …
Background Technical Debt (TD) is a well-established concept in software development and means that a solution that is “quick and dirty” is applied in order to earn time in short term and be able to provide a function in a system more quickly. This primitive implementation will at a later stage need to be corrected …
Process anti-patterns are a common technique for documenting counterproductive solutions to reoccurring problems. Process smells document a similar thing while only signaling that they could be a potential problem. Research, in this field, has analyzed and characterized anti-patterns in business processes; however, these business processes are mostly modeled in BPMN, which are related to low-level …