Design guidelines for software processes knowledge repository development

García, J.; Seco, Antonio de Amescua; Sanchez, M.P. Fernandez; Bermón, Leonardo

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.03.002

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“…This is a system in which a central database is created for easy storage, organisation and access to knowledge. Garcia et al (2011) support the idea and argue that a central database supports easy retrieval and learning in agile teams. This system has effectively been used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency to store software engineering knowledge (Jansma & Means 2012).…”

Section: Knowledge Storagementioning

confidence: 92%

Knowledge management in small software development organisations: A South African perspective

Shongwe

2017

S. Afr. j. inf. manag.

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Background: Software organisations have been experiencing software development failures since the beginning of software development. Globally, latest Standish Group CHAOS reports indicate that only 29% of projects are successful. In South Africa (SA), the ITWeb report (2013) indicates that only 11% of all projects are successful. Intervention strategies such as software process improvement (SPI) frameworks and new software development methodologies such as agile methods have been introduced to address this issue. These intervention strategies do not seem to be effective because software development projects continue to fail. To address this issue, software organisations are turning to knowledge management (KM). This is because software development is a knowledge-intensive task.Objectives: The study aimed to investigate KM practices in small, medium and micro (SMMEs) software development organisations in SA and to determine if KM has benefited the organisations.Method: Fifteen software development project managers from 15 software development SMMEs were interviewed. Content analysis was used to analyse the data.Results: The study found six KM practices in the organisations: knowledge acquisition, creation, storage, sharing, organisation and application. The study found that KM has benefited organisations by making them effective, efficient and productive.Conclusions: The study concluded that software development organisation have adopted KM, although informally, and that KM practices have improved organisational routines and processes.

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Section: Knowledge Storagementioning

confidence: 92%

Knowledge management in small software development organisations: A South African perspective

Shongwe

2017

S. Afr. j. inf. manag.

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“…Even though it is generally accepted that elaboration of SDM have a positive influence on the software development process (e.g. for the sake of knowledge reuse and quality assurance), companies very much differ in the level of details they believe is useful to capture and document (García et al, 2011). Furthermore, keeping ways of working documented and up-to-date is "expensive" and time-consuming.…”

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Intelligent Agile Method Framework

2013

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract:The paper addresses the problem of the low usage of software development methods in software development practice. This has been recognized as one of the key reasons for failures in software development projects and a contributor to the low quality of software. We introduce a novel approach that could help to improve the maturity of software development processes. The approach is based on the method engineering principles taking into account the limitations that hinder its use in practice. The main objective of our research is to show that the method engineering concepts are applicable in real settings and that could contribute to the higher quality of software development processes and their products.

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“…ITAKA is based on the guidelines for building a PAL proposed by García et al. [35], but also includes con¯guration and change management principles to implement a feedback mechanism to enrich the pre-existing knowledge with experiences exchanged among software engineers even when working in di®erent project teams or geographic locations. The following paragraphs brie°y describe these new features.…”

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“…Finally, the use of the process assets by the software engineers has to be monitored by the librarian to evaluate whether the organizational knowledge is managed properly and e®ectively, and to identify opportunities for improvement by introducing corrective changes in the future [35]. In addition, quality of new contributions has also to be measured as it may a®ect user satisfaction [37] and the success of learning will depend largely on users' intentions to continue using the framework [38].…”

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Study of Factors Influencing the Adoption of Agile Processes When Using Wikis

Heredia

García-Guzmán

Seco

et al. 2014

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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The adoption of innovative Software Engineering (SE) processes by an organization implies that engineers have to learn new processes which they might not be familiar with. Social software can support and enhance this adoption process, so research needs to focus on how the exchange of knowledge among software engineers using these tools can help to perform training more e®ectively. We propose a framework based on social software to support the collaborative learning, adoption and improvement of SE processes through the exchange of experiences among individuals. This article examines factors in°uencing the adoption of new SE processes and the quality of the experiences shared using the proposed framework in comparison with similar ones. Two case studies were carried out involving junior engineers in a training course on agile software development. Anonymous surveys collected data on the perceived quality of the experiences shared during the research, their usefulness, and the simplicity of the mechanisms provided to contribute experiences. Results show that the adoption of new SE processes is in°uenced by several factors such as the commitment of software engineers to collaborate in the adoption of the new process, the perceived level of usefulness of the tacit knowledge elicited during the adoption process, the diversity of the topics covered by the shared knowledge, the simplicity of the mechanisms to contribute new tacit knowledge, and the amount of learning achieved by software engineers. Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng. 2014.24:859-885. Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com by UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND on 02/04/15. For personal use only.manner À À À a process that is unknown for them a priori. It usually happens when a Software Engineering (SE) organization wants to introduce a new process or when a newcomer engineer joins a project team.The knowledge and experience acquired in previous projects can be useful in these situations so that the learning based on that experience becomes a key element in the e®ective adoption of new processes and for improving both productivity and quality [1]. This kind of knowledge is however di±cult to¯nd, and when found its reuse is di±cult to achieve in practice [2,3]. The main reason is that experiences from previous projects are context-speci¯c and con¯ned to each individual; its tacit nature makes this type of knowledge hard to formalize and to communicate [4], so other software engineers that may perform similar tasks and come up against similar problems do not take advantage of these experiences and successful practices are not repeated [1].Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives attempt at creating an environment that supports the handling of knowledge and experiences within an organization to improve personnel competences [2, 5], which ultimately leads to increased organizational e®ectiveness [6]. One of the fundamental structures in every KM system is the knowledge repository. It stores knowledge artifacts in such a manner that they can be retrieved and reused [7] in order...

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Design guidelines for software processes knowledge repository development

Cited by 43 publications

References 35 publications

Knowledge management in small software development organisations: A South African perspective

Knowledge management in small software development organisations: A South African perspective

Intelligent Agile Method Framework

Study of Factors Influencing the Adoption of Agile Processes When Using Wikis

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