Knowledge Acquisition and Communities of Practice: An Approach to Convert Individual Knowledge into Multi-organizational Knowledge

The use of an enterprise ontology to support knowledge management in software development environments

“…Currently, EOSDE tools offer automated support to: (i) definition of the organizational structure [6,11], (ii) adaptation of the organization's standard processes for a specific project, (iii) organizational knowledge acquisition [11], (iv) project planning, monitoring and control including time, costs, risks and human resources [11], (v) planning and execution of configuration management activities, (vi) requirements management, (vii) planning and monitoring of corrective actions, (viii) measurement and analysis activities, and (xix) post-mortem analysis.…”

“…Lessons learned (successful or otherwise) in other projects are very important to avoid committing the same errors and to remember the successes. Two icons, located in the upper right hand corner, allow available knowledge to be consulted as well as knowledge acquisition through an interface to a knowledge acquisition tool called Acknowledge [11]. The knowledge acquired can be indexed by ontological concepts and their instances, which are later used to help in the required knowledge retrieval.…”

Reference Model for Software Process Improvement: A Brazilian Experience

“…In order to support the deployment of the model, those companies counted on the software process consultants of COPPE/UFRJ, and the CASE tools integrated into a Software Development Environment, named Taba Workstation [10,11,12,13,14].…”

“…Moreover, SDE are evolving to integrate knowledge management activities within software processes aiming to support developers to produce better software products based on organizational knowledge and previous experiences more effectively [10].…”

The use of an enterprise ontology to support knowledge management in software development environments

“…Tools to support the description and updating of tasks and Domain Theories [5], organizations' structure and processes [6] as well as the capture of knowledge items [11] are provided by the Knowledge Management Infrastructure of EOSDEs.…”