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En kvalitativ studie om teknisk ledares syn på teknisk skuld: hantering och allmän syn
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.
2022 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
A qualitative study of technical leaders views on technical debt : management and general views (English)
Abstract [sv]

Bakgrund: Teknisk skuld är ett återkommande problem inom mjukvaruutveckling där det tycks vara omöjligt att undvika att samla på sig en teknisk skuld som över tid måste återbetalas innan den blir för komplex att handskas med. Detta har inneburit att man behöver hantera, åtgärda och återbetala den tekniska skulden med olika typer av tillvägagångssätt.

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att intervjua tekniska ledare för att ta del av deras syn på vad teknisk skuld är och hur man hanterar den i det dagliga arbetet. För att kunna förstå termen teknisk skuld användes tidigare forskning och befintlig litteratur om ämnet.

Metod: Undersökningsdesign i rapporten har följt en små-N-studie där nio respondenter har intervjuats från olika organisationer i Sverige. Intervjuerna genomfördes via digitala medel och samtliga intervjuer spelades in. Efter varje intervju transkriberades materialet med hjälp av Microsoft Word och renskrevs sedan av författarna i studien.

Resultat: Resultatet visar att hanteringen av teknisk skuld skiljer sig beroende på vilken typ av bransch man är verksam inom. Det kan handla om hur man hanterar återbetalningen av teknisk skuld eller vilken typ av skuld som man samlar på sig. Slutsats: Fastän hanteringen och synen på teknisk skuld varierade mellan respondenterna så ansåg alla att det var väldigt viktigt att ta tag i och inget som man kunde ignorera.

Abstract [en]

Background: Technical debt is a recurring problem within software development where it seems impossible to avoid accumulating technical debt that over time must be repaid before the interest grows too large and complex to deal with. This has meant that you somehow need to handle, fix and repay the technical debt with many different approaches.

Aim: The aim for this study was to interview tech leads about their view on what technical debt is and how it is managed in their daily work. To better understand the underlying concept of what a technical debt is and how it is managed we used prior research and existing literature about the subject. Method: The design method used in this report was of the type small-N-studies where nine respondents were interviewed from different organizations all located in Sweden. The interviews were transcribed using Microsoft Word and was then rewritten by the authors to be able to then analyze the material using a targeted content analysis with predetermined categories based on previous studies.

Main result: The results show that the management of technical debt differs depending on the type of industry in which you operate. It can be about how to handle the repayment of technical debt or the type of debt that you accumulate.

Conclusion: Although the management and view of technical debt varied between the respondents, everyone considered it very important to address and nothing that could be ignored. The technical debt was handled differently, but in the end the working methods were similar.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022.
Keywords [en]
Technical debt, Refactoring, Technical debt management, Tech lead
Keywords [sv]
eknisk skuld, Refaktorering, Teknisk skuld hantering, Teknisk ledare
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Information Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-28793OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-28793DiVA, id: diva2:1705857
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Informatics
Available from: 2022-10-28 Created: 2022-10-24 Last updated: 2022-10-28Bibliographically approved

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