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Managing Software Engineers and Their Knowledge

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Managing Software Engineering Knowledge

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This chapter begins by reviewing the history of software engineering as a profession, especially the so-called software crisis and responses to it, to help focus on what it is that software engineers do. This leads into a discussion of the areas in software engineering that are problematic as a basis for considering knowledge management issues. Some of the previous work on knowledge management in software engineering is then examined, much of it not actually going under a knowledge management title, but rather “learning” or “expertise”. The chapter goes on to consider the potential for knowledge management in software engineering and the different types of knowledge management solutions and strategies that might be adopted, and it touches on the crucial importance of cultural issues. It concludes with a list of challenges that knowledge management in software engineering needs to address.

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    Aybüke Aurum  & Meliha Handzic  & 

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    Ross Jeffery

  3. Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Box 520, SE-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Claes Wohlin

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Edwards, J.S. (2003). Managing Software Engineers and Their Knowledge. In: Aurum, A., Jeffery, R., Wohlin, C., Handzic, M. (eds) Managing Software Engineering Knowledge. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05129-0_1

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