Background:
Currently, the organization's competitive advantage is based on critical decisions
to achieve their objectives by understanding the power of knowledge as a source within the organizations.
However, there is a lack of qualitative models/frameworks for integrating Knowledge Life
Cycle (KLC) within software development life cycle SDLC. Therefore, the goal of this research is to
involve Knowledge Management activities within the SDLC in Information Technology companies to
produce quality software. With the help of knowledge movements within the companies, the quality of
provided software is used to improve organizations performance and products better and faster.
Methods:
This research highlights the importance of Knowledge Management activities during a
typical software development process to provide the software as a final product/target. Moreover, the
paper proposes a model to explain the relationships between knowledge management activities within
the process of software development life cycle to produce quality software using three basic building
blocks: people, organizations, and technologies. The success factors for the blocks are selected
depending on the most recent literature occurrences and on their fitness to the nature of this study.
Results:
The research proposes a novel model for the success factors to evaluate the effects of the
building blocks, and workflows during the software development processes. The selected success
factors for the blocks are (Training, Leadership, Teamwork, Trust, IT Infrastructure, Culture, and
strategies). Also, the research demonstrates the relationships between KM success factors and SDLC
to produce quality software.
Conclusion:
In this research, we proposed a novel model to explain the relationships between
knowledge management activities within the process of software development life cycle to produce
quality software using three basic building blocks: people, organizations, and technologies. We selected
seven success factors for the blocks depending on: 1) their importance and occurrence in a
number of literature by many authors; and 2) their fitness to the nature of this study. The success
factors (Training, Leadership, Teamwork, Trust, IT Infrastructure, Culture, and strategies) of the
proposed model can be used to evaluate the effects of people, organizations, technologies, and workflows
during the software development processes to obtain the required software quality. Finally, a
quantitative study will be implemented to investigate the proposed hypothesis and to measure factors
influencing the suggested model. By assessing to which degree these factors are present/ absent
within the SDLC process the managers will be able to address the weakness by preparing a suitable
plan and produce quality software.
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