The presentation delivered by the students and professors offers a systematic literature review analyzing proposals, approaches, and results related to process debt in software development within agile contexts. “Process debt, according to Antonio Martini, is the result of suboptimal process design, a deviation from an optimal process, or deficiencies in infrastructure that may be beneficial in the short term, but can generate a negative long-term impact for stakeholders involved in the process.” In particular, the study focuses on identifying the benefits, challenges, causes, impacts, effects, and/or consequences of process debt, with the aim of contributing to the definition of strategies that enable the measurement, management, and mitigation of its effects in agile software development teams.

“Thanks to this analysis, it became evident that although there is growing interest within the scientific community, the study of process debt has received less attention compared to other types of debt, such as technical debt. This opens a promising field of research and encourages the exploration of new ways to apply these findings in practice, especially in agile environments where adaptability and software quality are essential,” stated Professor César Jesús Pardo Calvache.