Rodrigo Rebouças de Almeida

Professor Adjunto IV no Departamento de Ciências Exatas da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Brasil - desde 2014. Fundador e coordenador do AYTY - Laboratório de Engenharia de Software aplicada, onde desenvolvemos pesquisa, capacitação e soluções a partir de colaboração ativa com o mercado.

Minha pesquisa é focada na tomada de decisão usando perspectivas de negócios na gestão de dívidas técnicas. Esta pesquisa possui uma colaboração ativa com empresas, onde conduzimos técnicas de engenharia de software empiricas para obter resultados que geram impacto prático na indústria.

Entre meus hobbies, gosto de pedalar, tomar um bom café e jogar jogos de tabuleiro com a família e amigos. Também sou um entusiasta sobre ciência em geral. Ensinar é uma paixão que venho praticando por mais de 25 anos.

Sinta-se à vontade para entrar em contato caso eu possa ajudá-lo(a) de qualquer forma.

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E-mail: rodrigor (at) dcx.ufpb.br

Redes sociais

Interesses em ensino e pesquisa

Gerência de Dívidas Técnicas
Gerência de Processos de Negócios
Engenharia de Software
Evolução de Software
Programação
Projeto de Software

Jogos de tabuleiro modernos

Meu hobby é jogar e colecionar jogos de tabuleiros modernos. Em meu tempo livre gosto de jogar com amigos e familiares. Também mantenho uma conta no Instagram (@trilhadepontos) onde ocasionalmente comento sobre alguns jogos que tive a oportunidade de jogar.

Aqui está a lista dos últimos jogos que joguei (fonte Boardgamegeek.com):

Publicações selecionadas

Aligning Technical Debt Prioritization with Business Objectives: A Multiple-Case Study

Rodrigo Almeida, Uirá Kulesza, Christoph Treude, D’angellys Cavalcanti Feitosa, and Aliandro Higino Guedes Lima

In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Sep 2018

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Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor to describe the trade-off between short-term workarounds and long-term goals in software development. Despite being widely used to explain technical issues in business terms, industry and academia still lack a proper way to manage technical debt while explicitly considering business priorities. In this paper, we report on a multiple-case study of how two big software development companies handle technical debt items, and we show how taking the business perspective into account can improve the decision making for the prioritization of technical debt. We also propose a first step toward an approach that uses business process management (BPM) to manage technical debt. We interviewed a set of IT business stakeholders, and we collected and analyzed different sets of technical debt items, comparing how these items would be prioritized using a purely technical versus a business-oriented approach. We found that the use of business process management to support technical debt management makes the technical debt prioritization decision process more aligned with business expectations. We also found evidence that the business process management approach can help technical debt management achieve business objectives.
@inproceedings{rodrigor2018, author = {Rebouças de Almeida, Rodrigo and Kulesza, Uirá and Treude, Christoph and Cavalcanti Feitosa, D'angellys and Higino Guedes Lima, Aliandro}, booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)}, title = {Aligning Technical Debt Prioritization with Business Objectives: A Multiple-Case Study}, year = {2018}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {655-664}, keywords = {}, doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2018.00075}, issn = {2576-3148}, month = sep, }
Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study

Rodrigo Almeida, Rafael Nascimento Ribeiro, Christoph Treude, and Uirá Kulesza

In 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), May 2021

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Incorporating the business perspective into prioritizing technical debt is essential to contribute to decision making in industry. In this paper, we evolve and evaluate a business-driven approach for technical debt prioritization. The approach was evaluated during a five-months industrial case study with business and technical stakeholders’ active participation. The results show that the approach contributed to aligning business criteria between the business and technical stakeholders. We also observed a downward trend in the amount of technical debt that affects high-value business assets. Moreover, we identified eight business factors that affect the decision making related to the prioritization of technical debt. The study results suggest that the proposed business-driven technical debt prioritization approach can help teams to focus their efforts on paying off the business’ most relevant debt.
@inproceedings{rodrigor2021, author = {Rebouças de Almeida, Rodrigo and do Nascimento Ribeiro, Rafael and Treude, Christoph and Kulesza, Uirá}, booktitle = {2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt)}, title = {Business-Driven Technical Debt Prioritization: An Industrial Case Study}, year = {2021}, volume = {}, number = {}, pages = {74-83}, keywords = {}, doi = {10.1109/TechDebt52882.2021.00017}, issn = {}, month = may, }