Towards Collaborative Technical Debt Management in Systems of Systems

Systems Engineering is a matter of the perspective and scope where several principles of the systems thinking approach coincide. Following the fundamental system principle of holism and interaction theory, in order to understand the whole the system should be considered as a whole. Due to the phenom...

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Published in2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt) pp. 87 - 91
Main Authors Schutz, Johann, Gomez, Jorge Marx
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published ACM 01.05.2020
Subjects
Collaboration
Computing methodologies → Systems theory
Context modeling
Distributed systems organizing principles
Sensitivity
Software
Software and its engineering → Ultra-large-scale systems
Software functional properties
System of systems
Systems thinking
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Summary:Systems Engineering is a matter of the perspective and scope where several principles of the systems thinking approach coincide. Following the fundamental system principle of holism and interaction theory, in order to understand the whole the system should be considered as a whole. Due to the phenomena of emergence, not all properties of a system can be determined or explained by its components alone. The conceptual model of Technical Debt already recognize the context sensitivity of Technical Debt as an essential factor and identifies phenomena that fall outside the core definition of Technical Debt as a major part of future research.This short paper shows why managing the parts does not equal managing the whole by introducing Technical Debt as an emergent characteristic and why the traditional Technical Debt-Management methods can only be partially applied to Systems of Systems.
DOI:10.1145/3387906.3388620