A triple bottom-line typology of technical debt: Supporting decision-making in cross-functional teams

dc.contributor.authorGreville, Mark
dc.contributor.authorO'Raghallaigh, Paidi
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-24T11:51:34Z
dc.date.available2022-01-24T11:51:34Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.date.updated2022-01-24T10:31:26Z
dc.description.abstractTechnical Debt (TD) is a widely discussed metaphor in IT practice focused on increased short-term benefit in exchange for long-term ‘debt’. While it is primarily individuals or groups inside IT departments who make the decisions to take on TD, we find that the effects of TD stretch across the entire organisation. Decisions to take on TD should therefore concern a wider group. However, business leaders have traditionally lacked awareness of the effects of what they perceive to be ‘technology decisions’. To facilitate TD as group-based decision-making, we review existing literature to develop a typology of the wider impacts of TD. The goal is to help technologists, non-technologists, and academics have a broader and shared understanding of TD and to facilitate more participatory and transparent technology-related decision making. We extend the typology to include a wider ‘outside in’ perspective and conclude by suggesting areas for further research.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationGreville, M., O'Raghallaigh, P. and McCarthy, S. (2022) 'A triple bottom-line typology of technical debt: Supporting decision-making in cross-functional teams', Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, 4-7 January, pp. 645-654. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/79408 (Accessed: 24 January 2022)en
dc.identifier.endpage654en
dc.identifier.startpage645en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12453
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoaen
dc.relation.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/79408
dc.relation.urihttps://hicss.hawaii.edu/
dc.rights© 2022, the Authors.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectTechnical debten
dc.subjectEmerging issues in e-collaboration distributed group decision-making: Opportunities and challengesen
dc.subjectGroup decision makingen
dc.subjectTechnology debt effectsen
dc.subjectTriple bottom lineen
dc.titleA triple bottom-line typology of technical debt: Supporting decision-making in cross-functional teamsen
dc.typeConference itemen
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