Knowledge Management Initiatives in Agile Software Development

Future Research ◽

Research Goal ◽

Knowledge Intensive ◽

Agile Software ◽

Agile Requirements ◽

Research Type

Agile software development (ASD) is a knowledge-intensive and collaborative activity and thus Knowledge Management (KM) principals should be applied to improve the productivity of the whole ASD process from the beginning to the end of the phase. The goal is to map the evidence available on existing researches on KM initiatives in ASD in order to identify the state of the art in the area as well as the future research. Therefore, investigation of various aspects such as purposes, types of knowledge, technologies and research type are essential. The authors conducted a systematic review of literature published between 2010 and December 2017 and identified 12 studies that discuss agile requirements engineering. They formulated and applied specific inclusion and exclusion criteria in two distinct rounds to determine the most relevant studies for their research goal. Reuse of knowledge of the team is the perspective that has received more attention.

Conceptual modeling for knowledge management to support agile software development

The Knowledge Engineering Review ◽

10.1017/s0269888914000198 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 496-511 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Amritesh ◽

Subhas C. Misra

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Software Development ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Conceptual Modeling ◽

Practice Environment ◽

Learning Framework ◽

Knowledge Intensive ◽

The Individual ◽

AbstractAgile software development (ASD) has emerged as a result of consolidated values proposed under the lightweight methods of software engineering. Despite bearing some criticisms, the initial deployment and results observed in the practice environment represents its increasing domination over the traditional software development practices. Any ASD method, in particular, requires knowledge-intensive practices and typically employs multi-disciplinary expert team working extended periods of time for weeks on a nearly continuous basis. A huge amount of tacit knowledge creation and exchange happens in the entire process over the project lifecycle, which attracts the attention of research in the domain of knowledge management (KM). In this paper, first, we have mapped the agile values and agile principles, and in its support, we have argued upon and the need for integrated KM infrastructure and proposed a KM model that can be employed within the organization. We have also developed a conceptual framework for knowledge sharing and learning for the individual practitioners for the sustainability of agile team. We attempt to create an organizational learning framework for knowledge creation and exchange among the involved entities in a collaborative practice environment.

Using meta-ethnography to synthesize research on knowledge management and agile software development methodology

Proceedings of the 17th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality - SBQS ◽

10.1145/3275245.3275270 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Glauco Antonio Ruiz ◽

Bianca Minetto Napoleão ◽

Erica Ferreira de Souza ◽

Katia Romero Felizardo ◽

Giovani Volnei Meinerz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Software Development ◽

Development Methodology ◽

Software Development Methodology ◽

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering - EASE'17 ◽

A systematic review on the use of Definition of Done on agile software development projects

10.1145/3084226.3084262 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ana Silva ◽

Thalles Araújo ◽

João Nunes ◽

Mirko Perkusich ◽

Ednaldo Dilorenzo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Software Development ◽

Development Projects ◽

Definition Of ◽

Lightweight Architecture Knowledge Management for Agile Software Development

Agile Software Architecture ◽

10.1016/b978-0-12-407772-0.00007-1 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 189-213 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Veli-Pekka Eloranta ◽

Kai Koskimies

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Software Development ◽

Knowledge Management Strategies and Processes in Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering ◽

10.1142/s0218194019500153 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (03) ◽

pp. 345-380 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Raquel Andrade Barros Ouriques ◽

Krzysztof Wnuk ◽

Tony Gorschek ◽

Richard Berntsson Svensson

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Literature Review ◽

Software Development ◽

Systematic Literature Review ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Product Portfolio ◽

Knowledge Processes ◽

Amount Of Knowledge ◽

Knowledge-intensive companies that adopt Agile Software Development (ASD) rely on efficient implementation of Knowledge Management (KM) strategies to promote different Knowledge Processes (KPs) to gain competitive advantage. This study aims to explore how companies that adopt ASD implement KM strategies utilizing practices that promote the KPs in the different organizational layers. Through a systematic literature review, we analyzed 32 primary studies, selected by automated search and snowballing in the extant literature. To analyze the data, we applied narrative synthesis. Most of the identified KM practices implement personalization strategies (81%), supported by codification (19%). Our review shows that the primary studies do not report KM practices in the strategic layer and two of them in the product portfolio layer; on the other hand, in the project layer, the studies report 33 practices that implement personalization strategy, and seven practices that implement codification. KM strategies in ASD promote mainly the knowledge transfer process with practices that stimulates social interaction to share tacit knowledge in the project layer. As a result of using informal communication, a significant amount of knowledge can be lost or not properly transferred to other individuals and, instead of propagating the knowledge, it remains inside a few individuals’ minds.