Context A known problem in large software companies is to balance the prioritization of
short-term with long-term feature delivery speed. Specifically, Architecture Technical Debt is …

Architectural Technical Debt is regarded as sub-optimal architectural solutions that need to
be refactored in order to avoid the payment of a costly interest in the future. However …

Nowadays, Agile and Global Software Development (AGSD) has brought benefits and new
challenges to the software industry. Among the main challenges is Architecture Knowledge …

Architectural Technical Debt is a metaphor for representing sub-optimal architectural
solutions that might cause an interest, in terms of effort or quality, to be paid by the …

Context: Previous research investigated how to approach architecting in agile projects (eg,
in terms of processes and practices), but the role that architects play in Scrum is still not well …

Proportionality is a concept that refers to the importance of the relationships between the
parts of the same geometric shapes in terms of a mathematical ratio, which is represented …

Abstract Architecture enforcement is concerned with the correct and seamless
implementation of architecture design decisions in order to ensure software quality. In a …

Agile software development (ASD) has been employed effectively in the development of
embedded systems, contributing to speeding up the delivery of value to the customers …

Agile software development is already widespread in the industry and has worked well in
small project organizations. However, large-scale development in the form of roles and …

Software is pervading our environment with products that become smarter and smarter every
day. In order to follow this trend, software companies deliver continuously new features, in …