Scope Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a discipline that tries to achieve an alignment between the overall business strategy and its realization in information systems. One important means in this discipline are EA models, which are used to understand the actual state of the organization as well as to plan for the future evolution of the …
Background In the software development industry, technical debt is regarded as a critical issue in terms of the negative consequences such as increased software development cost, low product quality, decreased maintainability, and slowed progress to the long-term success of developing software. Technical debt describes the delayed technical development activities for getting short-term payoffs such as …