  Business aspects have been identified as a significant cause for the creation
of technical debt. We conducted a survey with 71 experienced practitioners and
did a thematic analysis of the open-ended answers to the question: "Could you
give examples of how business may contribute to technical debt?" Twelve
business-related causes were organized into three categories: pure-business,
business/IT gap, and management. Market pressure, the business/IT gap, tight
deadlines, feature prioritization, and bad requirement elicitation were the
most cited business-related causes of technical debt.
