A survey of case studies of the use of knowledge management in software engineering

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 391-414

  Dingsøyr, Torgeir ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^b  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Experience factory; Knowledge management; Learning software organisations; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; QUALITY CONTROL;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 17444435982     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194002000962     Document Type: Article

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