Software maintenance meetings: Guide, codebook, and excerpts

A type of meeting that has been understudied in the software engineering literature to date is what we term the software maintenance meeting: a regularly scheduled team meeting in which emergent issues are addressed that are usually out of scope of the daily standup but not necessarily challenging enough to warrant an entirely separate meeting. This dataset includes the guidelines and codebook used to analyze a set of ten meetings of this kind. It also includes excerpts from the video transcripts that were analyzed as part of the study. These excerpts illustrate the nature of the meetings.

Methods
The guideline and codebook were produced by the researchers as a result of a thematic analysis performed over the video recordings and their respective transcripts. The excerpts selected from the transcripts illustrate the discussion held during software maintenance meetings. To keep subjects' identities private, these excerpts were completely anonymized.

In summary, the process was the following, the videos of the ten meetings were transcribed by a professional transcription service, and then used as the sole sources for various kinds of analyses. For confidentiality reasons, the healthcare company that provided the video recordings did not allow their disclosure. However, they did give permission to share anonymized excerpts from the video transcripts.