Digital Nudging for Technical Debt Management: Insights from a Technology-driven Organization

dc.contributor.author Buchmann, Lorena
dc.contributor.author Haki, Kazem
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-24T19:51:04Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-24T19:51:04Z
dc.date.issued 2021-01-05
dc.description.abstract Today’s fast-growing and ever-changing business environments force software development teams to release high-quality software on a tight schedule. The notion of technical debt (TD) captures the technical compromises wherein software quality is sacrificed for short-term goals. One of the most significant challenges for technical debt management (TDM) is time as a factor of complexity. TD arises from decisions that are favorable in the short term but cause a need for complex and costly actions in the long term. Building on the applications of nudges – the use of small design modifications in choice environments to guide people’s behavior – and on their psychological effects, in this design science research we develop and evaluate design elements of a Technical Debt Management Label (as a TDM nudge) in a technology-driven organization. The TDM label aims to guide software developers’ decisions towards adopting TDM activities that are favorable in the long term.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2021.498
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71115
dc.language.iso English
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Behavioral Economics in the Digital Economy: Digital Nudging and Interface Design
dc.subject choice architecture
dc.subject design science research
dc.subject digital nudging
dc.subject technical debt management
dc.title Digital Nudging for Technical Debt Management: Insights from a Technology-driven Organization
prism.startingpage 4094
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