Investigating Knowledge Management practices in software development organisations - An Australian experience

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 511-533

  Aurum, Aybüke ^a   Daneshgar, Farhad ^a   Ward, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

KM activities; KM process enablers; Knowledge Management; Software Engineering; Software process models

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

KM ACTIVITIES; KM PROCESS ENABLERS; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 40849140976     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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