Background Technical debt is a metaphor that describes the tradeoff often made between short-term solutions in a software system and the long-term development of it. These kinds of trade-offs can create issues that makes it harder to modify and develop a software system further. This aspect becomes increasingly important as businesses must stay competitive in …
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 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 …
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 …