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-month 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.

翻译：将企业观点纳入技术债务优先排序对于促进工业决策至关重要。在本文件中,我们制定和评价了企业驱动的技术债务优先排序方法。在为期5个月的工业案例研究期间,在企业和技术利益攸关方的积极参与下,对这种方法进行了评估。结果显示,该方法有助于调整企业和技术利益攸关方之间的商业标准。我们还注意到影响高价值商业资产的技术债务数额呈下降趋势。此外,我们查明了影响技术债务优先排序决策的8个商业因素。研究结果表明,拟议的企业驱动的技术债务优先排序方法可以帮助团队集中精力偿付企业最相关的债务。