Ontology for Architectural Knowledge Condensation in a Co-Localized Agile Environment

Abstract

Agile software development companies considered small entities (VSE) face a new reality of remote development. Remote communication has generated many videos derived from video calls recorded for later reference. The video calls recorded contains architectural knowledge from virtual meetings and is essential for companies facing the knowledge vaporization problem. However, only some proposals in the literature can potentially manage AK in videos. This article proposes a solution to recover this architectural knowledge contained in videos using an ontology as a classification scheme, following the architectural knowledge condensation concept. We validated our proposal to manage architectural knowledge following the Methontology guidelines. Implementing an ontology as a classification scheme represents a step forward to achieving the condensation of architectural knowledge in an agile development environment for VSE.