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A knowledge management lifecycle for experience packages on software engineering technologies

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Learning Software Organizations (SEKE 1999)

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Abstract

Software engineering can benefit very much from customised knowledge management solutions. These should rely on reusable experience that is modelled explicitly and stored in central repositories. Few approaches exist yet that provide such knowledge management support to software engineering. Those that support it cover usually only part of the knowledge management lifecycle of the reusable artefacts.

This paper suggests a knowledge management lifecycle for experience about software engineering technologies and their application contexts. It primarily aims at supporting the planning of software projects and improvement programmes. The lifecycle model is substantiated by a tool implementation and evidence form an industrial trial application.

This work was performed while Felix Kröschel was with Fraunhofer IESE.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institut for Experimental Software Engineering, Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Birk

  2. Andersen Consulting, Otto-Volger-Strasse 15, D-65843, Sulzbach/Taunus, Germany

    Felix Kröschel

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Birk, A., Kröschel, F. (2000). A knowledge management lifecycle for experience packages on software engineering technologies. In: Ruhe, G., Bomarius, F. (eds) Learning Software Organizations. SEKE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1756. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101418

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