Research on Explicit and Tacit Knowledge Interaction in Software Process Improvement Project

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Extracción del Conocimiento tácito como base para el establecimiento de mejora de procesos de software en las Organizaciones de desarrollo de Software

“…Sobre el conocimiento tácito, en su investigación sobre los distintos tipos de conocimiento, Polanyi (Wan, Jiangping, Wan Dan, Luo Weiping, 2011), afirma que el conocimiento tácito, es aquél conocimiento que no ha sido codificado y que presenta una mayor complejidad al transmitirse. Además, se basa en experiencias personales, prácticas organizacionales no formalizadas o conocimiento empírico y es conservado por los expertos (Nonaka & von Krogh, 2009).…”

Explicit and tacit knowledge conversion effects, in software engineering undergraduate students

“…These models define workflows that allow the project team to be guided in each of the activities and generating work products necessary for a success development and maintenance. In addition, these models propitiate knowledge processes of Socialization, Externalization, Combination, and Interiorization during the conversion of tacit and explicit knowledge present in the software development lifecycle (Wan et al 2011;Chikh 2011).…”

“…It enables a formal and informal exchange of knowledge among software developers (Rus and Lindvall 2002), contributing greatly to tacit and explicit knowledge-building practices that support the software process improvement (SPI) (Wan et al 2011). It has been identified in previous work that the study population had been primarily staff of organizations of the software industry (Humayoun and Qazi 2015;Wan et al 2011;Chikh 2011). In none of these works were only students involved as personnel of a company.…”

“…Knowledge management (KM) has been considered vital to improve professionalism in the areas or departments of software engineering (SE) (Edwards 2003), used as a strategy that provides a simple way to learn in depth about organizations of software (Humayoun and Qazi 2015). It enables a formal and informal exchange of knowledge among software developers (Rus and Lindvall 2002), contributing greatly to tacit and explicit knowledge-building practices that support the software process improvement (SPI) (Wan et al 2011). It has been identified in previous work that the study population had been primarily staff of organizations of the software industry (Humayoun and Qazi 2015;Wan et al 2011;Chikh 2011).…”

“…Considering the advantages of the KM in SE and SPI projects, KM measurement techniques were implemented based on the work of (Flores-Ríos 2016; Pérez-Soltero 2007; Wan et al 2011) taking into account that this type of companies also generate, store, and use knowledge. The objectives of this research are: (1) Measure the effect of conversion tacit to explicit knowledge and vice versa from the four processes of knowledge conversion during the education of undergraduate students, and (2) Characterize the findings to establish improvement actions in the SPI project; engaging students in a KM program associated to SPI project which is expected to connect the gap between academic and industry projects by introducing undergraduate students in a dynamic organizational learning and culture to share knowledge earlier (Rus et al 2001).…”