A Practical Guide for Establishing a Technical Debt Management Process
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The additional material for the paper "Towards Best Practices for Managing Technical Debt in Practice" comprises the following documents: * TDM_Guide.pdf Whitepaper for practitioners: Guideline to establish a TDM process * Team_Comparison_adoptedApproaches_challenges.xls - Tab: Adopted_Approaches_Overview - Tab: Challenges_Overview * Workshop Agendas.pdf Example Agendas for KickOff and other workshops * Survey_Overview.xlsx - List of all survey questions, type, "mandatory" status, and their relevance/relation to the RQs* TDMGuide_0_InitialTalk.pdfSlides for the Inital Talk given to participants at the beginning of the action research to introduce some basic information and terminology * Team A/ADOSTDTickets_Template.pdf Screenshot of the backlog's TD item template of Team A.* Team B/JiraTDTickets_Template.pdf Screenshot of the backlog's TD item template of Team B.* Team C/GitHubTDTickets_Template.pdf Screenshot of the backlog's TD item template of Team C. * Team<A|B|C>/workshop_flipcharts/WS<No.>.jpg Anonymized flipchart photos to give an impression of the workshops and workshops' results. Translations are directly included in the photos. * Team<A|B|C>/workshop_slides/TDMGuideWorkshop.pptx Anonymized slides of each workshop to give an impression of the workshops and workshops' results. * Team<A|B|C>/evaluations/Meeting_Observations_Researcher<1|2>.xslx - Individual observation protocols of each researcher to show the comments of both researchers * Team<A|B|C>/evaluations/Meetings_Overview_combinedObservations_Evaluation_Figures.xlsx - Overview of all meetings plus information on length, participants, whether a video exists and was used for evaluation - Observation protocols results combined for both researchers (except for comments -> see above for commments) - Summation, evaluations, and resulting figures * Team<A|B|C>/evaluations/TD-SAGAT_Survey_and_SurveyResults_Figures.xlsx - Survey questions for TD-SAGAT plus results - Evaluation plus figures * Team<A|B|C>/evaluations/Workshop_Survey_and_SurveyResults_Figures.xlsx - Survey questions for Workshops plus results - Evaluation plus figures * Team<A|B|C>/evaluations/Kickoff_Survey_and_SurveyResults.xlsx - Survey questions for Kickoff Workshops plus results - Evaluation in Workshop_Survey_and_SurveyResults_Figures.xslx * Team<A|B|C>/evaluations/Backlog_Evaluations_and_Figures.xlsx - Last manual backlog evaluation before the visualisations could be used for this evaluation * Team<A|B>/visualizations/V<No.>.png - Anonymized visualizations of Team A and B. Team C was not able to visualize the results due to technical issues. * Team<A|B>/visualizations/Team<A|B>_readme.txt - Text file with short information for each visualization